Christopher Cokinos Quotes
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
Salman Rushdie
I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.
Colin Wilson
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
Pierre Nanterme
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
Cesare Pavese
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
