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“She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.”
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“The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.”
― Lanark: A Life in Four Books
― Lanark: A Life in Four Books
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?”
― Glass and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?”
― Glass and God
“Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long.”
― America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
― America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
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