We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
“The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' ”
“Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”
“I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.”
“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, storytelling, truth, memory
