Top 9 Daphne Merkin Quotes
#1. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin
#2. No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
Daphne Merkin
#3. My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.
Daphne Merkin
#4. Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
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#5. Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.
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#6. Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.
Daphne Merkin
#7. It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
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#8. Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.
Daphne Merkin
#9. Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
Daphne Merkin
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