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“If I want to spend my life unpacking my life, why am I always collecting boxes?”

Life Boxes Frightened Preservation Constraints Inhibitions Unpacking Restraints

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She should have taken a moment to do this little thing. Why had it skipped her mind? With that small question, an answer crept to attention. “You were unpacking and putting your kitchen together. You were making dinner. For your husband. You were fixing your hair and putting on makeup to please him when he came home. Then, you were distracted and went to set the table for dinner…”

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Book:The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“A common error about metaphor is to suppose that it can be in some sense ‘unpacked’. When that unpacking takes place, what is left is rarely of any value; it seems a paltry and colourless thing when compared to the metaphor itself.”

Book:Metaphor

Source: Metaphor

“I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of darkness, so that you may be ready to share with me a bit of the mood — it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation — which these books arouse in a genuine collector. For such a man is speaking to you, and on closer scrutiny he proves to be speaking only about himself.”

Books Unpacking Moving House Unpacking Books Unpacking My Library

Author:Walter Benjamin

“I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.”

Mother Found Cat Catholic Caps Bathing Unpacking

Author:Lizz Winstead

“I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.”

Way Certain Fun My Own Thrown Exploring My Own Life Fallacy Identifying Unpacking

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.”

Book Bigs Fans Ought Clothes Ethics Classic Holiday Work Ethic Scenery Cruise Old Books Unpacking

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.”

Knows Littles Done Moving Hate Subjects I Hate Agree Lifetime Bread Hotel Touring Entertainers Packing Salons Bread And Butter Unpacking

Author:Thomas Lynch

“The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.”

Three Enjoy Journey Week Travel Travellers Funny Unpacking

Book:Forty Modern Fables

Source: Forty Modern Fables

“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.”

Book Activity Unpacking

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.”

Long Moving Half Huge Safe Mouths Okay Thirds Boxes Finished Broke Chocolate Bites Knives Plastic Ivy Unpacking

Author:Kim Harrison

“I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.”

Book Order Library Boredom Touched Shelves Unpacking

Book:Gesammelte Schriften

Source: Gesammelte Schriften

“Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.”

Mind Self Space Higher Walking Tools Chaos Unconscious Print Archives Flashlights Unpacking

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.”

Want Needs Mind Book Use Together Ready Demand Pages Stuck Occasions Unpacking

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I can't stand unpacking.”

I Can Unpacking

Author:Shannen Doherty