"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Sick Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.”
“It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.”
“Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.”

Source : Wilhelm Stekel (1950). “Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst”
“When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.”
“Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' âˆ’ the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.”
“I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way.”
“Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation”
“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”

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