Karen Joy Fowler: Quotes about the world

Karen Joy Fowler is American novelist, short story writer, editor. Explore interesting quotes on world.

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“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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