"If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now"

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Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

Hannah Kent

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“The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.”
“[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.”
“The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.”

Source : "Zack Snyder on ‘Watchmen’ legacy as ‘the anti- “Avengers” movie’". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 12, 2012.
“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”
“I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.”
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

Source : Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”
“My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.”

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