"I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies."

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Source : "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

Ben Marcus

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Way Quotes

“I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?”
“Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.”
“Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”

Source : Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller
“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”
“Science is the future of mankind.”

Source : "Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications". Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, September 15, 2008.
“Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: â€œNo!”

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