"For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain."

-- Susanna Kaysen

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“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
“Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.”
“Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.”

Source : Michael Kurland (2002). “The Unicorn Girl”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC
“My heroes are all dead. I've lots of heroes. My mum is a hero. She had to put up with me and my dad. She is one of my heroes. Some of my friends are heroes. There are so many. But heroes usually let you down, don't they? There is people I admire, people I respect.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 20, 2012
“I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.”
“this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.”

Source : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown
“Morals are private. Decency is public.”

Source : Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.84, Bantam

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