“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
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British writer 1951–2016Related quotes
“Nowadays, having the heart "of other times" is not a defect, but an added value.”
Original: (it) Al giorno d'oggi, avere il cuore "d'altri tempi" non è un difetto, ma un valore aggiunto.
Source: Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems
“Obsession with self is the motif of our time.”
1990s, 1999, Nixon on the Couch (1999)
“Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers.”
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I don't want to dump on TV, but there's no doubt that our language has been changed by television, especially by the media, which tries to manipulate us into being consumers. Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers. What does the consumer think? What does the consumer want? How ugly. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. I want us to be nourishers. To be a librarian, particularly a librarian for young adults, is to be a nourisher, to share stories, offer books full of new ideas. We live in a world which has changed radically in the last half century, and story helps us to understand and live creatively with change.
The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 4, “A Thousand Leaves, A Thousand Shadows” (p. 99).