Eula Biss Quotes

• Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

  Eula Biss

  Believe, News, Innocent

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

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  Real, Lectura, Libro

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• That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.

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  Art, Children, Motivation

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• Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

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  Country, Luxury, World

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• The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Mind

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• One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

  Eula Biss

  Country, Cousin, Fear

  "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.

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• Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

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  Believe, Cruelty

  "No-Man’s-Land" by Eula Biss, www.believermag.com. February 2008.

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• A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

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  Children, Understanding, Doe

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• Y cuando lo que queremos es comodidad, uno de los tónicos más poderosos que ofrece la medicina alternativa es la palabra "natural". Esta palabra implica una medicina libre de limitaciones humanas, concebida enteramente por la naturaleza o por Dios, o quizá por un diseño inteligente. Lo que "natural" ha llegado a significar para nosotros en el contexto de la medicina es "puro", "seguro" y "benigno". Pero el uso de "natural" como sinónimo de "bueno" es casi con toda seguridad producto de nuestra profunda alienación del mundo natural.

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  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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• I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

  Eula Biss

  Kids, Son, Decision

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