Quote by Germaine Greer
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even tho

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

Other quotes by Germaine Greer

Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. – Germaine Greer

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Love
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer

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alone
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The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods checks has bounced. – Gilbert Adair

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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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The only men who arent in fear of womens reactions are usually men who arent born or who are dead. – Warren Farrell

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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were Daniel must learn not to distract others. – Dan Stevens

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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a – a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government. – Michele Bachmann

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We are only young once. That is all society can stand. – Bob Bowen

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