Marc Auge Quotes

#1. Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Tucker Max

#2. I thought I heard the dark pounding its head
On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

Allen Tate

#3. Not until 1902, at an early meeting of the International Congress of Zoology, did naturalists begin at last to show a spirit of compromise and adopt a universal code. Taxonomy

Bill Bryson

#4. I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library.
"Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.

Amanda Quick

#5. I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Fielding

#6. I took another breath and relaxed. Huh. I can see what everyone's been going on about. You stink, Jacob.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.

Albert Williams

#8. We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

Marc Auge

#9. Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Walker Percy

#10. I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Victor LaValle