Quotes
Authors
Caroline Myss

"I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other thingsâ€”the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaosâ€”are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul."

-- Caroline Myss

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“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”
“"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.”
“I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.”
“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”
“Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.”
“Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”

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