You write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPSYou write to find out what you believe.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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