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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.


Raoul Vaneigem


#large number #means #merely #nowadays #number

She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in the dock. As Dr Byford explained, she was really the victim of a vicious, peculiarly female psycological disorder: she felt one thing and did another. She was a stranger to herself. And were they still like that, she wondered - these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desire instead of - as Howard might put it - desiring subjects? No, she could see no serious change. Still starving themselves, still reading women's magazines that explicitly hate women, still cutting themselves with little knives in places they think can't be seen, still faking their orgasms with men they dislike, still lying to everybody about everything.


Zadie Smith


#generation #objects #women #beauty

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.


Lauren Willig


#inanimate-objects #motivational

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.


Leah Hager Cohen


#labor #objects #price #society #value

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.


Samuel Alexander


#acts #distinguished #objects #sensory #their

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.


John Perry Barlow


#completely #different #economy #even #give

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.


Martha Beck


#caring #focused #happy #live #memories

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.


Saul Bellow


#angeles #been #california #collected #country

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.


Daniel Boone


#curiosity #influence #interesting #man #natural

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.


Joseph Butler


#cases #consequently #desire #happen #injury






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