Unpacking Quotes

• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Mind, Together

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• I can't stand unpacking.

  Shannen Doherty

  I Can

  "Newsmakers: Shannen Doherty". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. August 20, 2006.

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• The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

  George Ade

  Travel, Journey, Three

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Order, Boredom

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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• I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Way, Certain

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Activity

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.43, Vintage Canada

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• I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

  Lizz Winstead

  Mother, Cat, Caps

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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Space, Mind

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• Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Knives, Ivy

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book, Holiday, Clothes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hate, Moving, Done

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