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Lucy Ellmann QUOTES

Lucy Ellmann QUOTES

1 " he fact that there seems to be no problem in America that can’t be solved by murdering your whole family or your boss or a whole crowd of strangers, and maybe yourself "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

2 " the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren’t much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

3 " ...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life... "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

4 " the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything’ll be okay, the fact that it’s like dogs marking their territory "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

5 " the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

6 " The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts. "

― Lucy Ellmann , Dot in the Universe

7 " GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others... "

― Lucy Ellmann , Man or Mango?

8 " the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime’s supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand, "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

9 " And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful. "

― Lucy Ellmann , Man or Mango?

10 " the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything’s a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

11 " the fact that it’s unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them, "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

12 " Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. "

― Lucy Ellmann , Man or Mango?

13 " the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

14 " What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit. "

― Lucy Ellmann , Man or Mango?

15 " the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

16 " the fact that now it’s Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass, "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

17 " their phones actually, trying to get inside them somehow, "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

18 " the fact that a real apocalypse would be such a vindication, if you’d spent all this dough getting ready for it, "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport

19 " One of my cats reminds me of my mother. I pat my mother in her. Reincarnation of evaporated mother. "

― Lucy Ellmann , Man or Mango?

20 " the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore "

― Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport