"Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about."

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Caitlin Moran

#Writing Quotes #Dull Quotes #Mental Health Quotes

“In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.”
“One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even pin it down and say this is exactly what it predicts, so lets go out and test it. So, it's not even capable of being wrong, or being falsified, or being showed to be wrong.”
“Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.”
“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”

Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media
“I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.”
“A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.310, Princeton University Press
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.”

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