"No one can be the total cure for another person."

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Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.239, SUNY Press

Frank Lentricchia

#Cures Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I would love to study guitar or trumpet.”
“I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.”
“For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.”
“From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.”
“The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.”
“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
“Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.”
“Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.”

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