The Eye in the Door Quotes

“Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door

“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]

That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering.”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door

“One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door

“The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door

“Must be quite nice, really. A foot on each side of the fence. Long as you don’t mind what it’s doing to your balls.”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door

“Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics”
― Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door