"The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog."

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Source : Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr

Jane Bowles

#Dog Quotes #Men Quotes #Rainbow Quotes

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”
“You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.”
“I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.”
“I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.”
“I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.”
“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”
“An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”

Source : Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.226, Macmillan
“I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.”

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