Donald Antrim Quotes

#1. There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.

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#2. Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

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#3. There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

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#4. Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

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#5. Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

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#6. Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.

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#7. The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

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#8. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

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#9. But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

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#10. ...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.

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#11. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

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#12. The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person.

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