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What I am at heart, I don't know. But I do know that I love children. That's a fact.

As I stood there thinking, I saw a general with as many medals as I got hair, sitting at a front table at the outdoor cafe on Fankonin.

You know what, Pan Sholem Aleichem? Let's talk about something more cheerful. Have you heard any news of the cholera in Odessa?

I hope you and your partners have more luck than we have water in our river.

A drunk grows sober before a fool grows wise," says my mother, more health to her.

If it's my fate to have a scribbler for a husband, why must you scribble in Yehupetz? Isn't there enough ink in Kasrilevke?

I don't know how it is with other writers, but I've been treated like the lowest of the low.

I'm only human. A house without a woman is no house …' It did as much good as last winter's snow, of course.

Second, my dear husband, I pronounce you a certified lunatic. You might as well run naked through the streets!

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.

The kind of laughter, that sudden joy that strikes hidden fault lines and cracks them wide open.

A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.

Jesus had nothing to do with it. Just Jamie McGregor.

I'm changing the name. It's going to be called the Cameron Palace.' Lara felt a thrill just saying the words. It was almost a sexual feeling. Her name was going to be on a building for all the world to see.

Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.

Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929.

a mí mismo me causa singular impresión el comprobar que mis historiales clínicos carecen, por decirlo así, del severo sello científico, y presentan más bien un aspecto literario.

pleasure or pain may be thought of in psycho-physical relationship to conditions of stability and instability

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.

Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.

Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No." The man gives an exaggerated sigh. "I know this argument, and I don't buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it's their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.