American Bulk Quotes

“Sometimes you try your hardest and still can’t find something to want.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess

“The American Dream, as we know it, is abundance. It's a dream to amass houses, children, cars. It's a dream to collect things of value. But it is an equally American dream to be able to abandon, drop everything, to jettison, without guilt, anything that weighs you down.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess

“The economy had a long arm but no hands, and the men who controlled it spoke of it like weather.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess

“The economy had a long arm
but no hands, and the men who controlled it spoke of it like weather.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess

“Meanwhile, while I professed to
be making a farce of taste, I was still following taste’s lone remaining edict:
you could like bad things without embarrassment, so long as you conceded
their badness. You could sin, as long as you made clear which god you
prayed to.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess