Diane Ackerman citáty

Diane Ackerman je autorka, básnířka, přírodovědkyně.

✵ 7. říjen 1948   •   Další jména Diane Ackermanová
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“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1991)

“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses

“I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory”

Diane Ackerman kniha The Zookeeper's Wife

Zdroj: The Zookeeper's Wife

“What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.”

Silence and Awakening
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writer Confront Death (2011) Edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow

“Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.”

An Alchemy of Mind : The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004) ISBN 0743246721

“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”

Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
Misattributed

“Out-of-body experiences aim to shed the senses, but they cannot. One may see from a new perspective, but it’s still an experience of vision.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Postscript (p. 301)
A Natural History of the Senses (1990)

“My muse is male, has the silvery complexion of the moon, and never speaks to me directly.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 6 “Synesthesia” (p. 299)

“We may pretend that beauty is only skin deep, but Aristotle was right when he observed that "beauty is a far greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.””

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

The sad truth is that attractive people do better in school, where they receive more help, better grades, and less punishment; at work, where they are rewarded with higher pay, more prestigious jobs, and faster promotions; in finding mates, where they tend to be in control of the relationships and make most of the decisions; and among total strangers, who assume them to be interesting, honest, virtuous, and successful. After all, in fairy tales, the first stories most of us hear, the heroes are handsome, the heroines are beautiful, and the wicked sots are ugly. Children learn implicitly that good people are beautiful and bad people are ugly, and society restates that message in many subtle ways as they grow older. So perhaps it’s not surprising that handsome cadets at West Point achieve a higher rank by the time they graduate, or that a judge is more likely to give an attractive criminal a shorter sentence.
Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 5 “Vision” (pp. 271-272)

“The color we see is always the one being reflected, the one that doesn’t stay put and get absorbed. We see the rejected color, and say “an apple is red.””

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

But in truth an apple is everything but red.
Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 5 “Vision” (p. 252)

“Though it has a certain Russian-roulette quality to it, eating fugu is considered a highly aesthetic experience. That makes one wonder about the condition that we, in chauvinistic shorthand, referred to as “human.””

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Creatures who will one day vanish from the earth in the ultimate subtraction of sensuality that we call death, we spend our lives courting death, fomenting wars, watching sickening horror movies in which maniacs slash and torture their victims, hurrying our own deaths in fast cars, cigarette smoking, suicide. Death obsesses us, as well it might, but our response to it is so strange. Faced with tornadoes chewing up homes, with dust storms ruining crops, floods and earthquakes swallowing up whole cities, with ghostly diseases that gnaw at one’s bone marrow, cripple, or craze—rampant miseries that need no special bidding, but come freely, giving their horror like alms—you’d think human beings would hold out against the forces of Nature, combine their efforts and become allies, not create devastation of their own, not add to one another’s miseries. Death does such fine work without us. How strange that people, whole countries sometimes, wish to be its willing accomplices.
Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 170)

“But, as sages have long said, the sexiest part of the body and the best aphrodisiac in the world is the imagination.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 131)

“Consciousness, the great poem of matter, seems so unlikely, so impossible, and yet here we are with our loneliness and our giant dreams.”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 130)

“What I’m really wondering is why notices were posted and invitations sent out at all: If it’s a psychics’ convention, shouldn’t everyone just know where and when to meet?”

Diane Ackerman kniha A Natural History of the Senses

Zdroj: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 2 “Touch” (p. 115)

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