Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler, 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 — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
who knows you better than your own brother? — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. ( — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suf — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph i — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We call them feelings because we feel them. — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything e — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,only that I honestly do — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The govern — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. R — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him. — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstrat — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves. — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make so — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how muc — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them. — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves