“That’s what I imagined, a giant game park with comfortable lodges and roads. At a minimum, roads. According to the website, there’d be “bush camping” involved, but I pictured lovely big tents with showers and flush toilets. I didn’t think I’d be paying for the privilege of squatting in the bushes.”
― Die Again
― Die Again
“He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed,”
― The End of All Things
― The End of All Things
“It is very difficult, if not impossible, to relinquish and attach at the same time.”
― Summer People
― Summer People
“And in the late nineties, two women sued Hopkins, claiming that its researchers had knowingly exposed their children to lead, and hadn’t promptly informed them when blood tests revealed that their children had elevated lead levels—even when one developed lead poisoning. The research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black. The researchers had treated several homes to varying degrees, then encouraged landlords to rent those homes to families with children so they could then monitor the children’s lead levels.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James wrote in 1892.prl.2 Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. And though each habit means relatively little”
― The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
― The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
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