"Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis."

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Source : 1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

D. M. Thomas

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“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

Source : "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.
“Sometimes you're lying to protect people in a way.”

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“The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.”
“Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.”

Source : "Feingold slams Dem super PACs" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. June 17, 2011.
“The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.”
“There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011
“Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”

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