"Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her."

-- Alice Miller

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Taken Quotes

“Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.”
“It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.”

Source : Interview with Tony Farinella, 411mania.com. February 8, 2013.
“The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.”
“Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.”
“It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.”
“A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.”
“[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.”
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”

Source : Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.

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