Vivian Gornick Quotes:
Ocupation: Critic
Life: b. June 14, 1935
Birthday: June 14
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.
topic: Moving, Roots, People, Personal Needs, Critical Mass, Insurmountable
