I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth— a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Sleep - real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby. So deep and warm the bed and the pillow enfolding me,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The sobs tearing through her were catharsis. Painful and messy, shredding her heart—and leaving a blissful sort of peace in their wake.… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“He thought he vomited out his soul. If ghosts were made of ectoplasm and ghosts were basically souls without bodies, then it… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable,… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not.… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock -… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
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