"One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
Alain de Botton
"Cinema is a world of imagination."
Marjane Satrapi
"To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood."
Tushar Upreti
"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters."
Ross Macdonald
"Simplicity is one complication that I can live without."
Anthony T. Hincks
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability."
Ayn Rand
"(On period costume posture coaching:)'We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out."
Emma Thompson
"I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?"
Madeleine Thien
"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."
Dr. Seuss
"I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore."
Tom Robbins
"Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries."
Howard Tayler
"My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying."
Laurence J. Peter
"We live by a perceptual 'map' which is never reality itself."
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