Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!
Diane AckermanIt's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented.
Diane AckermanMuch more. We're joined at the heart."
"Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky."
"Too much boozing."
His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. "Not enough kissling.
Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.
Diane AckermanTag: organizing
In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
Diane AckermanAntonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human attention.
Diane AckermanEvery day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.
Diane AckermanGermany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution.
Diane AckermanThe Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10 percent remain.
Diane Ackerman...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
Diane AckermanTag: page-159
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