“Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.”

— Bradley Denton

Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991), p. 84

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American science fiction author 1958

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Man's Rise to Civilization (1968), p. 198

“The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.”

Richard Shweder (1945) American anthropologist

Why do Men Barbecue? (2003).

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“Even crazier than golf, though, is modern American politics, where, thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

Cold Turkey (2004)
Context: I have to say this in defense of humankind: No matter in what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got there. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these crazy games going on, which could make you act crazy, even if you weren’t crazy to begin with. Some of the games that were already going on when you got here were love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf and girls’ basketball.
Even crazier than golf, though, is modern American politics, where, thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide”

Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence

"Renascence" (1912), st. 20, Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, —
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.