#elf

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere. ↗

— Jane Campion

#anywhere #cult #different #down #ethos

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#always #armor #exactly #financially #i

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. ↗

— Albert Camus

#accept #defects #exact #failures #far

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ↗

— Albert Camus

#fill #happy #heart #heights #imagine

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds. ↗

— John Candy

#few #figured #free #here #i

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#become #character #escape #hide #i

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#different #different ways #expressing #find #i

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.' ↗

— Eric Cantona

#i #just #myself #passing #tell

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#itself #mental #mental illness #psychoanalysis #regards