"Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning."

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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

A.S.A. Harrison

#Events Quotes #Details Quotes #Stories Quotes

“. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.”
“You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2010
“I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.”
“I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”
“When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.”
“Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.”
“The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.”
“Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.”

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