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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its…
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can…
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up…
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind…
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about…
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets…
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To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia
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Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has…
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
— Jack Horner
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was…
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