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Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief ... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true. — Peter Medawar

Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations. — Karl Ove Knausgard

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that. — Anthony Quinn

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. — Muriel Barbery

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way. — Yael Naim

Night had come - night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day. — Virginia Woolf

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak. — Walt Whitman

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair. — Pete Hamill

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids. — Clive Owen

In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad. — Laura Hillenbrand

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. — Margaret Atwood

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of confidence. You have the capacity to do so. Your strength will give strength to others. Do not partake of the spirit so rife in our times. Rather look for good and build upon it. There is so much of the strong and the decent and the beautiful to build upon. You are partakers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel means "good news." The message of the Lord is one of hope and salvation. The voice of the Lord is a voice of glad tidings. The work of the Lord is a work of glorious accomplishment. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment. — Chen Guangbiao