"You have been in every way all that anyone could be....Â If anybody could have saved me it would have been you."

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Jennifer Niven

“Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.”
“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.”
“Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.”
“There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.”

Source : Karen Horney “The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures”, Yale University Press
“This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.”
“In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.”

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