House Fires Quotes

• Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

  Sue Grafton

  Fire, Attachment, House

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Fire, House, Action

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Song, Cancer

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• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Winter

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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• Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Loss, Fire

  David Suzuki, Holly Dressel (2009). “From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis”, p.328, Greystone Books Ltd

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