"Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months."

-- Joan Rivers

#Night Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.”
“I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.”
“If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.495, Macmillan
“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”
“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Source : Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.”
“The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.”
“If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.”

Source : Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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