None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. - Maureen Howard - Quotesmemo.com

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I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

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Maureen Howard

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Adults, Flesh, Modesty, Kneaded, Touched

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Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

Book, Carrol, Creatures, Moving, New Beginnings, Novel

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Density, Help, Imagination, Together, Writing

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

Gave, Genitals, God, Play, Want, Women

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

Arches, Concept, Landscape, Mcdonalds, Rise, Simple

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

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Safer than we are. ” I told Franny. “Safer than love. ” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

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I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

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