Psychic Pain Quotes by Phillip Lopate

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• ... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or…
• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give…
• Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like…
• I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.
• The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than…
• Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children…
• The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread…
• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,…
• I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like…
• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run…
• The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of…
• The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

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