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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phr




Leon was less withdrawn, more friendly, and he was, much of the time, in contact with reality. He was, in other words, getting better. It is our guess that Leon did not want to get better. He did not want to get any closer to us, or to Joseph and Clyde. He was only too aware of the implications of getting better, and he was frightened of them. He had become sick originally for very good reasons, and the reasons had not changed. Thus, although he needed companionship, he wanted it only up to a point, and this point had already been reached and passed. He was beginning to care too much for Joseph and Clyde (and perhaps for us too) and he needed to return to his earlier state of isolation from his fellow man.


Milton Rokeach


#schizophrenics #change

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?


Brad Warner


#paraphrased #death

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.


Linda Gerber


#bianca #ocean #pool #water #death

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.


Roman Payne


#artemis #dance #dancing #death #life

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.


Herculine Barbin


#grief #hermaphrodite #intersex #loss #love

She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once." I shrugged, "fine. I said'. . . just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.


Michael Siemsen


#father-humphrey #group-talk #lol #morgan #morgan-mother

Six months ago when she first came up with the idea to kill Wilson, back when she was living in Memphis, she'd started going to church again. Since she was spending so much time thinking about sinister things, the least she could do, she reasoned, was to think about God and his love twice a week at church so that she wouldn't become a total sociopath. And rather than kill other people who were stand-ins for the person she really wanted to kill, like serial killers did, she'd be kind and generous to others and hone in on the one who deserved to die. And her plan had worked extremely well. Since she'd started planning to kill Wilson, and then decided to destroy his family instead, she felt no animosity toward anyone but him. Almost none at all!


Elizabeth Stuckey-French


#madness-and-mayhem #revenge #turn-of-phrase #family

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size


Melissa Nathan


#melissa-nathan #paraphrased #pride-and-prejudice #humor

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come


Mario Puzo


#paraphrased #simile #life

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone.


Irvine Welsh


#lies #life #schizophrenia #truth #life