You write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPSI am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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We are children for a very long time.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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