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Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic. — Philip Rieff

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here — Billy Connolly

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you ... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa — Richelle Mead

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them. — Lauren Wolk

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. — Philip Rieff

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease. — Philip Rieff

Scholarship is polite argument. — Philip Rieff

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. — Philip Rieff

I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor. — Bonnie McFarlane

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling. — Philip Rieff

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden. — Philip Rieff