"Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices."

-- Theodore Dalrymple

#Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
“I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.”

Source : "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
“Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We stand a professional distance apart, as if I canâ€™t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint soundâ€”that of glass breakingâ€”until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.51, Penguin
“Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?”
“My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.”
“I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”

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