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“As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.”
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“A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side ...”
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“Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wound. ... The analyst ... keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.”
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“Americans had a passion ... for this year's model. ... Advertisements jumped out from the magazines, through radio and television. Daily life spun round on a commercial carousel. You brushed your teeth to its music in the morning, ate your lunch and dinner to it, and went to bed full of advertising. It was an instant civilization with everything immediately to hand, ready, replaceable, and eternally new.”
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“ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do — and not doing it.”
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“ I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!”
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“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”
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“History repeats herself. ”