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Quote by Norman Cousins

“The control center of your life is your attitude.”

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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.”

Mind Has Beens Art Sometimes Reality Might Joy Night Brain Terrible Horror Instinct Endure Dawn Fancy Vitality Vivid Chamber Gothic Phantoms Reverie Malady

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

Men Wells Doe Real Soul Eye Evil Born Minutes Understood My Soul Her Eyes Honorable Foul Odor Honorable Man

Book:Torture Garden

Source: Torture Garden

“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”

Feelings Eye Left Clear Stones Chairs Defining Oleanders

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

Ifs Long Enough Happens Epitaph

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.”

Way Process Ordinary Lifestyle Unstable Eliminating

Book:The Story of B

Source: The Story of B

“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.”

Children Two War Clear Cutting Generations Blood Mines Drug Disease Labor Slavery Fortune Pollution Scratches Extinction Monopoly Mills Child Labor

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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