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“This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.”

“Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.”

Firsts Different Objects Sight Impression Disguise First Love Love At First Sight Revival Infantile

Book:Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst

Source: Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst

“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.”

Humans Human Beings Silence Darkness Solitude Elements Anxiety Majority Productions Factors Infantile

Book:Writings on Art and Literature

Source: Writings on Art and Literature

“Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.”

Shows Hours Sleep Eight Infantile

Book:The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

Source: The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

“I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.”

Years Mean America Left Exile Infantile

Book:The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

“The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.”

Fall Stuff Laughing Stupid Jokes Filled Bathroom Make Me Laugh Pun Infantile Sopranos Bad Jokes Retrograde

Author:David Chase

“The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.”

Education Effects Instruction Infantile Syphilis

Author:Robert Briffault

“One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.”

Years Problem Able Courses Hip Hop Hips Lazy Hops Infrastructure Infantile

Author:Chuck D