Unpacking Quotes

• Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

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  Alberto Manguel

  Book   Unpacking   Activity  

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.43, Vintage Canada

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• I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

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  Walter Benjamin

  Book   Order   Boredom  

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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• The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

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  George Ade

  Travel   Journey   Three  

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

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  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book   Holiday   Clothes  

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I can't stand unpacking.

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  Shannen Doherty

  Unpacking   I Can  

  "Newsmakers: Shannen Doherty". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. August 20, 2006.

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• I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

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  Lizz Winstead

  Mother   Cat   Unpacking  

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• I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun   Unpacking   Way  

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

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  Seneca the Younger

  Book   Mind   Together  

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• Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

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  Thomas Lynch

  Hate   Moving   Unpacking  

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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

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  Terence McKenna

  Self   Space   Mind  

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• Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.

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  Kim Harrison

  Moving   Knives   Ivy  

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