"History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women."

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Source : "The Crimson Petal and the White". Book by Michel Faber (Episode ten), www.theguardian.com. 2002.

Michel Faber

#Way Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Strange Quotes

“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”
“The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events and objects can be removed, but obstacles presented by social principles are hard to remove.”
“When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.”
“I just want to get on the court.”
“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin
“There is no just and serene criticism as yet.”
“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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