"Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways."

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Source : "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. September 7, 1999.

Susan Minot

#Way Quotes #Illness Quotes #Behave Quotes

“I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.”
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
“Some people prefer the finer things in life, I'm alright just hanging out with the ghost of Vincent Price”
“Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.”
“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”
“Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.”

Source : Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”
“Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.”
“Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians).”

Source : Speech in Ain el Remmaneh, Lebanon, March 1989.

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