“New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.”
William Maxwell
more infosource: So Long, See You Tomorrow (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 131.
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category: emotion, New York City, tears
medium: Fiction
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Only press on: no feeling is final.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
more infosource: From The Book of Hours in The Poetry of Rilke, trans. and ed. by Edward Snow (New York: North Point Press, 2009), 33.
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category: advice, beauty, emotion, terror
medium: poetry
notes: from Mary Karr's Twitter feed
“Therapy, you might say, became a kind of release valve for my life; it gave me a place to say the things I could say nowhere else, express the feelings that would be laughed at or frowned upon in the outside world — and in so doing helped to alleviate the insistent pressure of my darker thoughts.”
Daphne Merkin
more infosource: “My Life in Therapy,” The New York Times, August 4, 2010.
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category: emotion, expression, psychology, shrink, therapy, thought
medium: magazine article
“What grief we’d avoid if we knew how to transfer emotional experience across generations, as we do money or scientific knowledge.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 2:09 AM Apr 9, 2010 mobile web
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category: emotion, grief, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“Counterphobic, a shrink once called it, meaning I run fast toward any event I suspect might be excruciating.”
Mary Karr
more infosource: Lit (New York: Harper, 2009), 94.
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category: emotion, shrink, therapy, unhealthy behavior
medium: memoir
emotion