The Corrections (2001) (edit title/settings)

David Schleiffers edited the memorable quotes of The Corrections Friday, April 6, 2012.

• reordered the memorable quotes.
• Added a quotation: “Alfred took pleasure in the imagination of chopping his hand off with a hatchet: of letting the transgressing limb know how deeply he was angry with it, how little he love it if it insisted on disobeying him. It brought a kind of ecstasy to imagine the first deep bite of the hatchet's blade in the bone and muscle of his offending wrist; but along with the ecstasy, right beside it, was an inclination to weep for this hand that was his, that he loved and wished the best for, that he'd known all its life.”

Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Corrections Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “"<...> 'The"''The implications are disturbing, but there's no stopping this powerful new technology.' That could be the motto for our age, don't you think?"”

Jared T edited the memorable quotes of The Corrections Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful.”
• Added a quotation: “"Food and pussy, fella," said the leader of the turds <...> "is what it all comes down to. Everything else, and I say this in all modesty, is pure shit."”
• Added a quotation: “Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.”
• Added a quotation: “The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away.”
• Added a quotation: “"<...> 'The implications are disturbing, but there's no stopping this powerful new technology.' That could be the motto for our age, don't you think?"”
• Added a quotation: “The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
• Added a quotation: “There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite.”

Debbie R edited the memorable quotes of The Corrections Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

• Added a quotation: ““Then she moved to New York and embarked on the long process of sleeping with every dishonest, casually sadistic, terminally uncommitted really gorgeous guy in the borough of Manhattan””
• Added a quotation: ““”Declines led advances in key indices of paranoia…, and his seasonally adjusted assessment of life’s futility and brevity was consistent with the overall robustness of his mental economy.””
• Added a quotation: ““Interesting how eager he’s been to be alone, how hatefully clear he’d made this to everyone around him; and how, having finally closeted himself, he sat hoping that someone would come and disturb him. He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.””
• Added a quotation: ““On the second day in St Jude, as on the second day of every visit, she woke up angry. The anger was an autonomous neurochemical event; no stopping it.””
• Added a quotation: ““The disappointment on Enid’s face was disproportionately large. It was an ancient disappointment with the refusal of the world in general and her children in particular to participate in her preferred enchantments.””
• Added a quotation: ““She was 75 and she was going to make some changes in her life””
• Added a quotation: ““This camel of disappointment balked at the needle’s eye of Enid’s willingness to apprehend it.””

Tim W edited the memorable quotes of The Corrections Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The Universe was mechanistic: the father spoke, the son reacted.”
• Added a quotation: ““Take it easy”. The phrase seemed to Alfred an eastern blight, a fitting epitaph for a once-great state, Ohio, that parasitic teamsters had sucked nearly dry. Nobody in St Jude would dare tell him to take it easy. On the high prairie where he’d grown up, a person who took it easy wasn’t much of a man. Now came a new effeminate generation for whom ‘easygoing’ was a compliment…. ‘take it easy’ was the watchword of these super friendly young men, the token of their over familiarity, the false reassurance that enabled them to ignore the filth they worked in.””
• Added a quotation: “Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts…. Gary wished that all further migration <could> be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.”
• Added a quotation: “The correction, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.”