"It is only when we no longer compulsively……" — Anthony Storr
"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."
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32 Quotes by Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr has 32 quotes on this site.
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and…
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen…
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all…
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse…
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it…
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is…
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of…
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It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also…
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Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult…
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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More Compulsively Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller.…
— Unknown Author
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound…
— Unknown Author
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut…
— Stan Getz
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're…
— Rita Dove
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story.…
— Karin Slaughter
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the…
— Unknown Author
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Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950…
— Ian Bogost
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of…
— Molly Harper
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I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively…
— Travis Walton
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research…
— Debby Applegate
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If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
— Tim Vine
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