"In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it."

-- Terry Eagleton

#Self Quotes #Ego Quotes #Tip Of The Iceberg Quotes

“I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'”
“Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.”
“One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.”
“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press
“Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.”
“You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.”
“In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.”

Source : "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" by Jean Francois Revel in The American Enterprise Magazine (column "The View From Abroad"), December 2003.
“We can be richer than industry as long as we know that there's things that we don't really need”

Source : Song: Oxygen, Album: Where the Humans Eat, 2004

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