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I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come…

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“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and…

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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

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Metaphor is embodied in language.

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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

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