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“The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.”

People Important Matter Whole Might Spirituality Poverty Trouble Importance Supposed To Be Detachment Crux

Book:Thomas Merton in Alaska: Prelude to the Asian Journal : the Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters

Source: Thomas Merton in Alaska: Prelude to the Asian Journal : the Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters

“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”

Ideas Facts Feelings Reality Dear Scary Frightening Captains Detachment Psychosis

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.”

Want Two Ends Character Film Hours Fiction Dog Style Hollywood Independent Studios Crafts Detachment Delivery Independent Film Reservoirs Pulp Fargo Hollywood Studios Reservoir Dogs

Author:Stanley Tucci

“Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.”

Feels Mind Humans States Feelings Human Beings Worst Produce Ought Sentences State Of Mind Peculiar Entitled Deprived Detachment

Book:Self-interviews

Source: Self-interviews

“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.”

Ifs Knows Enough Speak Too Much Authority Critics Detachment Dilemma

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.”

Reality Wish Fear Practice Illusion Detachment

Author:Isabel Allende

“Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.”

Has Beens Theory Detachment

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.”

Important Shows Social Economy Position Development Remove Marxism Detachment Relevance Social Development

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory”

Earth Grief Growing Air Circumstances Depression Metaphor Despite Proportion Thrive Distress Detachment Allegory Thin Air Tumbleweeds

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.”

People Way Has Beens Force Interest Seeing Products Detachment

Author:Edward St Aubyn

“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”

Way Littles Enough Life Is Values Bits Secret Quality Taste Little Bit Absurd Artificial Detachment Secret Life

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.”

Men Self Reason Responsibility Principles Roots Radical Obedience Detachment

Author:Bede Griffiths