“Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]
That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering.”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
“The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
“One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
“Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
Born place: in Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
Born date May 8, 1943
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“We can't imagine anything more boring than to live with someone who doesn't care about food or eating or sharing meals.”
― Mireille Guiliano, quote from French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
“Why do men always resort to calling women bitches when we kick their asses?”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Murder Game
“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
“tan deprimido por su propia desidia que aquella noche al golpe de las ocho sorprendió a una de las mujeres encargadas de la ropa de los soldados y la derribó de un zarpazo sobre las bateas del lavadero a pesar de que ella trató de escapar con el recurso de susto de que hoy no puedo general, créamelo, estoy con el vampiro, pero él la volteó bocabajo en las tablas de lavar y la sembró al revés con un ímpetu bíblico que la pobre mujer sintió en el alma con el crujido de la muerte y resolló qué bárbaro general, usted ha debido estudiar para burro, y él se sintiómás halagado con aquel gemido de dolor que con los ditirambos más frenéticos desus aduladores de oficio”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from The Autumn of the Patriarch
“I should take a photo.'
'No. Just remember it, and us in it.”
― Ali Shaw, quote from The Girl With Glass Feet
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