Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Rachel Cusk

Quote by Rachel Cusk

“Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.”

Quote by Rachel Cusk

Create image

Author

Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk, born in 1967, is a distinguished British novelist. Her works are renowned for their unique narrative style and profound insights into modern life. Cusk's writing spans a range of themes including personal experience, family relationships, and social change, and has garnered widespread acclaim from readers. more

You May Also Like

“In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.”

MenActionMovingDesireCan DoBornCasesExampleObjectsDestructionTransformationHungerDestroyedTransformedContrastPassiveNegation
Book:Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Create image

“What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.”

WorldCountryPlayProcessGrowthPathEconomicDevelopmentCapableCapitalismEuropeThirdsMiracleAvailableBlockLiberalismAsiaThird WorldEconomic DevelopmentDisadvantagedUnderdeveloped CountriesLatecomers
Book:End of History and the Last Man
Create image

“The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.”

IfsMenWantWould BeLastsSexFiguresDependsIndustryMen And WomenSellsConsumersAdsWant MeDiscontentDissatisfactionLove One AnotherRetailHow To LoveEstrangementCounterproductiveRetail Sales
Book:The Beauty Myth
Create image