“You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.” PainFantasyChildhoodPureLaughterGoldOppositesSunlightWithin YouMudApprehensionFilthNauseaShirk Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.” GivingWellsArtSoulEndsPainJoyCoursesLevelsCommonBrainKnownFantasyDevelopmentArt IsProfessionPersonal DevelopmentPursuitCommon SenseUglinessDiploma Author:Robert Genn
“Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.” RealPainFacesCommunityFantasyDiseaseEvidenceCommittedHopefullyErasTherapyExplanationInjuryEmergingTherapistsScrapTherapeutic Author:Patrick David Wall
“And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.” KnowsLittlesPainHappinessGirlWishFantasySpecialSorrowProtectCoreInnocencePrincessHappily Ever AfterEver AfterLace Author:Peggy Orenstein