“Sometimes I tell myself, when I’m dealing with annoying adults, to picture the kid there. Because no matter how annoying the kid is, I can feel compassion for him or her.”
Claire Messud
more infosource: The Woman Upstairs (New York: Knopf, 2013), 192.
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category: compassion, coping mechanism, kid, school of life
medium: Fiction
“…in New York at the end of the day I play ostrich. I take a glass of beer or wine or a pill and go to sleep to have energy for the next day.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol 7, 1966–1974) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p53.
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category: alcohol, city living, coping mechanism, drug, escape, New York City, ostrich
medium: diary
notes: from a winter 1967–1968 entry in Nin's diary
coping mechanism