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“You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.”

Dream Would Be Courses Individual Language Accepting Shame Compare Translate Dreams You Have Pictorial

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.”

Different Home School Speak Language Parent Community Growing Up Growing Shame Treasure Being Different Classmates Specialness

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

Men Looks Faces Young Speak Language Shame Young Man Sat Hotel Englishmen Cannes Terrace Speaks French

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge”

Writing Language Dignity Shame No Fear

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”

Ifs Way Stories Light Speak Language Empathy Shame Exposure Unspeakable Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

“Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.”

“No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.”

Language Loss Accepting Forever Love You Listening Dignity Shame No Fear Submissive

Author:Jack Kerouac