“There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 17 (p. 200)
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American science fiction writer 1947–2006Related quotes
“I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.”
Source: Hidden Away
It does not. You cannot charge a woman $39.95 to hold the baby that she has just given birth to. You cannot constantly operate hospitals at close to capacity in order to maximize profits. The pursuit of private money in systems built for public good has not worked ethically or practically.
Coronavirus is revealing how broken America’s economy really is, 6 April 2020
“Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others.”
Ogier saying
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos
“Evidence exhausts the truth.”
as quoted in Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde, ed. Charles Juliet, First Dalkey Archive edition, 2009, London and Champaign pp. 60-61
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Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
A Universal History of Iniquity, preface to the 1954 edition; tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Context: I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. [... ] The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
“The day-to-day exhausted me!”
to Karl von Baden, August 23, 1823
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath