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Lily King quotes: She claimed that conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic.

She claimed that conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic.

Lily King quotes: Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

Lily King quotes: The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Lily King quotes: I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

Lily King quotes: I was raised on science as other people are raised on God, or Gods, or the crocodile.

I was raised on science as other people are raised on God, or Gods, or the crocodile.

Lily King quotes: Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

Lily King quotes: A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

Lily King quotes: I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Lily King quotes: Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.

Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.

Lily King quotes: I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

Lily King quotes: To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

Lily King quotes: For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

Lily King quotes: I wasn't sure how I would kiss her without lifting her up to my lips. She laughed as if I had said this out loud.

I wasn't sure how I would kiss her without lifting her up to my lips. She laughed as if I had said this out loud.

Lily King quotes: It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.

It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.

Lily King quotes: The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

Lily King quotes: He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

Lily King quotes: I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

Lily King quotes: I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...

I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...

Lily King quotes: I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.

I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.

Lily King quotes: I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

Lily King quotes: Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

Lily King quotes: I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

Lily King quotes: Americans could surprise you with the things they knew.

Americans could surprise you with the things they knew.

Lily King quotes: I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

Lily King quotes: missionaries are now rushing in droves to the Solomons to convert their wicked souls.

missionaries are now rushing in droves to the Solomons to convert their wicked souls.

Lily King quotes: Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

Lily King quotes: He didn't like her strong, nor did he like her weak.

He didn't like her strong, nor did he like her weak.

Lily King quotes: You don't always see how much other people are shaping you. What

You don't always see how much other people are shaping you. What

Lily King quotes: What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life.

What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life.

Lily King quotes: You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.

You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.

Lily King quotes: When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?

When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?

Lily King quotes: If I smiled at her she smiled back, and there were times I half pretended, half believed, she was my wife.

If I smiled at her she smiled back, and there were times I half pretended, half believed, she was my wife.

Lily King quotes: Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.

Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.

Lily King quotes: I didn't want to miss the euphoria. I haven't, have I? You said it happened at the second-month mark.

I didn't want to miss the euphoria. I haven't, have I? You said it happened at the second-month mark.

Lily King quotes: Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

Lily King quotes: The story you think you know is never the real one.

The story you think you know is never the real one.

Lily King quotes: There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Lily King quotes: I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

Lily King quotes: Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Lily King quotes: She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.

She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.

Lily King quotes: He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

Lily King quotes: I can't swim, so you better join me.

I can't swim, so you better join me.

Lily King quotes: -Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.

-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?
-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.

Lily King quotes: I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

Lily King quotes: But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She

Lily King quotes: You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Lily King quotes: I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.

I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.

Lily King quotes: It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.

It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.

Lily King quotes: We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.

We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.

Lily King quotes: Tears are not endless.

Tears are not endless.

Lily King quotes: Hello and goodbye are the same. Baya ban," she said. "As many times as you can stand it.

Hello and goodbye are the same. Baya ban," she said. "As many times as you can stand it.

Lily King quotes: Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

Lily King quotes: I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

Lily King quotes: She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.

She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.

Lily King quotes: mind Nell was writing: - ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers - paint on face only

mind Nell was writing: - ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers - paint on face only

Lily King quotes: It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .

It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .

Lily King quotes: Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart," she said finally.

Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart," she said finally.