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“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.”

“Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.”

Ifs Children Would Be Care Stuff Money Responsibility Greater Objects Duty Our Children Possession Obligation Your Children Nurture

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

“We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.”

Thinking Way Humans Kind Littles Made Important Stuff Human Beings Animal Brain Objects Floating

Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.”

Want Needs Giving Feels Stuff Sin Simple Grace Possibility Objects Materials Capitalism Silly Heroic Urgency Civics Silly Stuff

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.”

Want Stills Home Stuff Objects Connections

Author:Nate Berkus

“I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.”

Way Writing Believe Ideas Stories Turns Grows Stuff Objects Paper Don't Believe Oneself Transformed

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.”

Littles Said Shows Stuff Figures Objects Strange Painting My Friends Tradition Planning They Said Old Fashioned Figure Painting

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“Normally if you're dating, you're looking for compatibility, and then the moment that there's incompatibility, you're like, "Well, swipe left on that, let's just keep looking." In some ways I think the same lessons apply to people that apply to objects. It's just much easier to see that lesson in things because they're these fixed intangible lumps of stuff. People are not. They can change.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Wells Moments Left Stuff Objects Easier Lessons Dating Fixed Lumps Intangible Compatibility Incompatibility

Author:Ian Bogost

“I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.”

Thinking Ideas Stuff Audience Objects Proof Harry Potter Potters Harry Potter Movie

Author:Scott Derrickson

“Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.”

Pain Stuff Pleasure Levels Objects Keys Balance Rewards Payment Transactions

Author:Jeffrey Kluger