Consuming Quotes

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By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love… — Tim Ferriss
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regularsâ€”to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recordingâ€”all this… — Sylvia Plath
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that… — Eve Ensler
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and… — Nick Hornby
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by… — A. Lee Martinez
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. — Bruce Lee
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,… — Michael Ondaatje
We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible… — Lisa Lutz
The worst thing about e-mail is that you canâ€™t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back,… — George Carlin
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to… — Lionel Shriver
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is… — Ernst Junger
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies… — Richard Dawkins
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and… — Jennifer Haigh
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that… — Jack Kerouac
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. — Mineko Iwasaki

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