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Mary Catherine Bateson

"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."

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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

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"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."

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"You pays your money and you takes your choice."

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"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."

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"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."

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"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."

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"Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?"

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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
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"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."
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"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."
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"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
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