"With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

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“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”

Source : "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.
“Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.”
“The important thing is to be drunk.”
“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.”
“There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”
“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.”

Source : "Interview with Marlee Matlin Actress and Academy Award Winner". Interview with Doug Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. October 18, 2004.
“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
“Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'”

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