"Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success."

-- Patrick David Wall

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“As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to Chinaâ€™s reform.”
“The more you know the less you need to say.”
“I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.85, University of Illinois Press
“I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.”
“Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!”
“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.”

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