"It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten."

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Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Grosz

#Betrayed Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Painful Quotes

“Sometimes you know before you know.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.13, Ballantine Books
“We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.”
“It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook.”
“In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.”
“My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.”
“I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.”
“I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.”
“Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.”

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