"Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis."

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Source : Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

Barbara Holland

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“I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...”
“I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.”
“There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.”
“When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.”

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“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”
“The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.”
“In a free society, the 'vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a 'visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people.”
“How we learn is what we learn.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

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