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Anthony Storr

"Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships"

Source : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

Anthony Storr

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“I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.”

Source : "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,
“My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.”
“Secrets can be poisonous.”

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“Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.”

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“Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks.”
“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”
“You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political movement. This attack on the LGBT community was very shocking to the people who consider themselves to be activists. They're basically playing in the sandbox, and there's a tank coming! And what are they supposed to do - use the plastic shovel to push the tank back? But since the homosexual propaganda legislation, people have really stepped up, educated themselves politically, and grown by leaps and bounds.”
“Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.”

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