Choice Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray Download Open image “The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.” — Francine du Plessix Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choice Choices Civilization Exotic Starving
Never starving yet never quite satisfied. Carnal but without useful flesh or mind. — As I Lay Dying Copy Share Image
Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture. — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it’s easier to survive… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music and poetry, ... conversation with friends, and ...gratuitous, playful speculation. In Latin, the ultimate good is otium — the opposite is negotium , or gainful work. We have sought too much counsel in the proto-Calvinist work ethic preached… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
