"But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it."

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Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 29, 2011

Samuel R. Delany

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Promise Quotes

“For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.”
“The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.”
“I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.”
“I'm letting no man handle my bank account.”
“You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'”
“What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.”

Source : Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
“The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.”
“He said we're all going to die,' 'And what did you say?' 'I said that's why i'm here”

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