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Lynne Tillman

"Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by different things - but I believe deeply in what Freud wrote of their relationship to the unconscious, which is that jokes come to help us. We laugh so as to dispense with, or to express, some ambivalence or discomfort with the things around us. That's what laughing is: a release."

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

Lynne Tillman

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“Dangerously wellâ€™â€” what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling â€˜too well”
“There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.”

Source : Joyce Jillson (1986). “Fine Art of Flirting”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].”
“Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.”
“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.
“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”
“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
“But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.”

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