"One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy."

-- Glen Duncan

#Optimism Quotes #Idiot Quotes #Madness Quotes

“I heard it all the time, but I never looked at it that way. People that said I was too small were the ones that helped my career out. They were the ones that said I would never make it, and they're the ones that made me fight that much harder.”
“That's how it is onlineâ€”there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.”
“There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's”
“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”
“At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.”
“I occasionally watch provocative videos.”
“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”
“No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.”

Source : Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.180, Crown

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