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“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”

Humans Long Feelings Lasts Fear Human Nature Horror Incapable

Book:A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.”

Writing Feelings Father Horror Intensity Excess Hook Friday Our Father Woody Nancy Philip Runaway

Book:At Large

Source: At Large