"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Culture Quotes #World Quotes #Narcissist Quotes

“Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.”
“There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.”
“Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your ***** are like Chinese New Year fireworks.”
“I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.”
“what were you thinking?”
“How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.”
“If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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