“All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.” PeopleLittlesKidsOpportunityClassObjectsParticularObsessedHobbiesLittle Kid Author:William Gibson
“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldChildrenBookKidsReadingParentObjectsPossession Author:Ellen Hopkins
“As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.” KnowsWorldBookKidsKnow HowObjectsFitStoresNewspapersComicDepartmentUnusualBookstoresDepartment Stores Author:Ben Katchor
“I had a weird one a few years ago when I woke up one night, went to the window and saw a girl sitting on the kerb across the road just staring at me. Freaky. We get nice gifts for the kids too. And I've had naughty things. Let's say objects.” YearsKidsNightGirlSawsNiceObjectsSittingYears AgoWindowStaringOne NightNaughtyFreakyNaughty Things Author:Peter Andre
“Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.” MenImportantHandsKidsYoungChoicesBoysStupidObjectsGeniusCapacityAverageInventionYoung ManDisappointedCynicalCharmingDominantConformApatheticDeviateDeviants Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.” YearsWellsEnoughKidsTechnologyObjectsTheoryFoolFitMouthsYears AgoMedicineDumbPoolGenesSurviving Author:Lenny Bruce
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.” PeopleLongBodyKidsFeltSunCrazyObjectsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherCrazy PeopleFilling UpSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.” WayImportantKidsBeautifulHoursChurchTeachFrontsObjectsTruth IsSittingHearingSpendingAccessRationalSymbolicLiteral Author:George Saunders
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindLongMadeHardStatesBodyKidsFeltDifficultSunCrazyConditionsObjectsStudentsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickUniversityObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherKoreanCrazy PeopleFilling UpUniversity StudentsSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon