James K. Morrow - State Quotes

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The state flower of New Jersey is the common violet, she explained, smirking, the state bird is the eastern goldfinch, and the state fragrance is unrefined petroleum.

James K. Morrow

If Western Europe and the United States committed seven billion dollars annually to the cause of clean drinking water worldwide, that investment would save four thousand lives a day...
Seven billion dollars. That's less than what Europeans spend each year for perfume and Americans for cosmetic surgery. Before he went to the gallows, Enoch Anthem spoke often about Christ turning water into wine, but he never once implored Christendom to turn perfume into water.

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I figure that, given our thrownness, as Heidegger called it, we should work hard to become as bewildered as possible by this strange state of affairs, asking the most impertinent and audacious questions we can imagine. To do otherwise—and instead hand over the mystery of it all to dubious cults of expertise—is to waste one's life, I feel.

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