"People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress."

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Source : "Jaws". "Forty Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1987.

Donald Barthelme

#Stress Quotes #Feel Better Quotes #People Quotes

“Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.”
“A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.”
“Love makes everything complicated.”
“When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.”
“But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"The Trouble With Islam", www.youtube.com. March 16, 2007.
“I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.”
“The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]”

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