That's Not a Feeling Quotes

“You think your cynicism is a fleeting joke, but more and more it’s etched into your character.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Genuine relationships occur in uncomfortable proximity.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“What little I know now I’ve mostly taught myself, and it’s come complete with an autodidact’s insecurity and pedantry.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Neither the pig nor the goat moved or seemed to particularly notice the fire, other than to blink in the heat and flinch as parts of the burning roof fell down.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“For example, if we were dealing with the repercussions of, say, a divorce, we might have various members of the workshop enroll as the Real Father, the Ideal Father, the Real Mother, and the Ideal Mother, as well as, possibly, the Voice of Loyalty to Past Pain or the Voice of Hyperbolic Disappointment.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Nurse Kavita was a nervous, pretty Indian woman who was perpetually overwhelmed by the extent of her responsibilities”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Time moves in one direction, and each time you fuck up, you’ve fucked up forever.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“The rules aren’t important to me, very little is.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“No, no, nothing can get between you and your beloved unhappiness and I, for one, am too smart to try.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“It’s heroic, really, if something pointless and infantile can be called heroic. But most things called heroic are pointless and infantile.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“You simply can’t seem to come to terms with life’s ordinary happiness. Or even for that matter with life’s ordinary unhappiness.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Erasmus said that ‘every definition is a misfortune.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“You’re insulted that your daughter is being treated like everyone else because you feel that you’re special and that your daughter must be special, too.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“Wiggle’ stands for a ‘wonderful invitation to grow and gain a limiting experience.’ Because that’s what children are asking for when they act out. They’re asking to be limited. There’s nothing scarier for a child than feeling all-powerful.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“The girls whose parents hadn’t come were sitting quietly in the lounge.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“In the absence of pornography, The Decameron had been a welcome discovery for the students in Dedrick’s Cooking with Butter class.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling

“They’re called intimacy blockers because if you’re keeping a secret from someone, about something you did or that somebody else did, whichever, then you’re not in an honest relationship with them.”
― Dan Josefson, That's Not a Feeling