"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

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Marya Mannes

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“Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.”
“I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.”
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

Source : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)
“If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.”
“Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.”

Source : James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againâ€¦ I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene Oâ€™Neill were laughing.”

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