"Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days.""

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Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Fleur Adcock

#Neurosis Quotes #Littles Quotes #Way Quotes

“Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.”
“I watch every reality show out there.”
“The heart / That laughs must ache.”
“Most of my stories have some basis in fact.”
“So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.”
“But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”
“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
“I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.”

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