#or

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #commandment #honor #i #i see

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ↗

— Alice Miller

#burst #even #forth #good #help

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

#any #articulating #careful #disclosure #every

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#certainly #diverse #find #game #life

Barzul! ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eldest #eragon #funny #humor

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#back #begin #cannot #challenged #doomed

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#american culture #certainly #culture #department #difficult

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#credit #dare #endure #i #know