"I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience."

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Source : "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#Scales Quotes #Psychoanalysis Quotes

“I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.”
“There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.”
“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough â€”sustain it, be true to itâ€”we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”
“Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.”
“What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.”
“It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.”
“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”
“What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.”

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