To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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