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“Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.”
― From the Back of the Bus
― From the Back of the Bus
“The librarians sent books to the hospitals. They answered a thousand questions put to them by the military and civil authorities: How could Leningrad make matches? How could flint and steel lighters be manufactured? What materials were needed for candles? Was there any way of making yeast, edible wood, artificial vitamins? How do you make soap? The librarians found recipes for candles in old works of the eighteenth century.”
― The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
― The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
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“What counts as too much stuff? When do overflowing cardboard boxes spill into insanity? What is useless trash and what is valuable treasure?”
― The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
― The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
“Half a decade after Frost and Gross’s “The Hoarding of Possessions,” an article in Comprehensive Psychiatry found that “the disorder belongs to a similar category of social deviance as homelessness, which does not necessarily represent mental illness.”9 In their efforts to puzzle out the phenomenon, the authors approached hoarding as less of a mental illness located in the brain and more of a socialized phenomenon located in the world-at-large—the inverse of its current reception.”
― The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
― The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
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