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A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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'As a genereal rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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All of my books come from pain.
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
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As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Source: Lunar Park (2010) 204 -
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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