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c2f0d7d TOM Come on! Seriously ... HELEN Okay, okay ... I'm ... (Beat.) You have my hand there, you know. TOM Yeah, I ... is that not ...? HELEN It's fine. Just wanted to ask and see if it was an accident or not. TOM Umm ... no. It wasn't, no. But ... now you're making me self-conscious. Neil LaBute
fb9da32 this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something... Neil LaBute
d8ab536 Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool. Neil LaBute
c1eef15 WRITER Actors come and go, pal--you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let's not get all precious about it . . . Neil LaBute
f62c374 WRITER So, go on then, get all smart about it--can you deny what I'm saying? Huh? Jesus was not some . . . Indonesian guy! He just wasn't. ACTOR I'm not Indonesian! Jesus Christ! Neil LaBute
ff99678 What's the South African thing that I always mix up with "apathy"? (Thinks.) "Apartheid!" That wasn't me, so just get down off your high horse, okay?" Neil LaBute
8fae679 WRITER Right, but no offense, you guys eat dogs for lunch and many of us in the West here find that disgusting, so . . . ACTOR I'm not Korean, you prick! I'm of Chinese descent but I was born in Idaho! I-da-ho. You got that? / My God . . . Neil LaBute
cd838a2 MAN 3 . . . fuck, I'm glad I'm a guy! You know? MAN 5 Yeah, why's that? Pause. MAN 3 . . . because then I don't have to date 'em. Neil LaBute
cff7f5d TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's ... CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick ... Neil LaBute
ef56df8 Listen, I speak from experience when I say . . . just because some man doesn't have one does not necessarily mean that he can't be one. Neil LaBute
450717a What the fuck do I mean? I mean . . . (Beat.) Well, I, shit, I dunno! But you see what I'm getting at, don't you? Neil LaBute
ac3b1a5 WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone. Neil LaBute
ee71bfd I mean, I'm as fucked up and miserable as the next person, but I don't let it get me down. You know? Neil LaBute
87a7f3d WAITRESS 2 Then, the topper . . . an elbow to the ribs . . . "Hey, you make it?" Really sensitive, like we've got a fucking recipe for an orgasm!" Neil LaBute
ebe678d WAITRESS 1 What do I hope for in a guy? Everything . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What do I expect? Not much . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What'll I take? Usually . . . anything . . . Neil LaBute
406ee94 I get a bunch of productions in, like, Germany and Poland . . . It doesn't matter, places. Neil LaBute
c4771d1 When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it. Lawrence Block
60ec20b My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face. Karen Joy Fowler
e03eb28 The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Karen Joy Fowler
84ec269 Being an atheist is like not owning a TV - completely rational, but best kept to one's self. Barrett Brown
07fad66 He'd disposed of her corpse by feeding it to the hogs. Lawrence Block
8f98243 I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence. Barrett Brown
c0d2232 Control is an illusion--a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage. vulnerability Harriet Lerner
12751cf working on key emotional issues at their source, lays the groundwork for more solid intimate relationships in the present or future. Harriet Lerner
00191b5 I've seen any number of devastated men in therapy who tell me their wives left them out of the blue. The women, however, claim to have voiced their anger and discontent for a long time. Both are right; he hasn't listened well enough; she hasn't shared her thoughts about leaving clearly enough or early enough in the process. Often one person doesn't make a serious issue of divorce until she's finally made up her mind to leave. Any changes he.. Harriet Lerner
c188f7e I feel calmed and relieved when my husband knocks at my study door in the middle of a fight, puts his arms around me, and says, "I love you. This is stupid. Let's just drop it." Like two kids in the sandbox, we're suddenly light and playful again." Harriet Lerner
0201b1e experience of our self and the other person becomes fixed and small. My goal is to challenge us to engage in novel conversations that will create a larger, more empowering view of who we are and what is truly possible. Harriet Lerner
af8a6c3 I remain inspired and transformed by something I learned from Harriet Lerner's book The Dance of Connection.3 Dr. Lerner explains that we all have patterned ways of managing anxiety. Some of us respond to anxiety by overfunctioning and others by underfunctioning. Overfunctioners tend to move quickly to advise, rescue, take over, micromanage, and get in other people's business rather than look inward. Underfunctioners tend to get less compet.. Brené Brown
7f2dee6 All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family--in particular, losses and cutoffs. If we do not observe and understand how our triangles operate, our anger can keep us stuck in the past, rather than serving as an incentive and guide to form more productive relationship patterns for the future. Harriet Lerner
a3f0655 Nu esti o persoana mai putin iubitoare sau incompleta, daca iti raman anumite lucruri pe care nu le poti ierta si daca iti doresti ca pe anumite persoane sa nu le mai intalnesti vreodata-n viata. Poate ca devii un om mai puternic si mai curajos, daca ai ceva manie reziduala (fie ca provine dintr-o mare tradare, fie din numeroase neplaceri mici) si, in ciuda ei, reusesti sa-ti vezi de viata ta. Mai important ca orice, nu e treaba nimanui - .. Harriet Lerner
8e38d90 Many of the stories we take to be true or fixed about ourselves can change dramatically when we have conversations with people who make our world larger, not smaller. By doing our part to develop rather than diminish our voice, we can: - Create a more accurate and complex picture of ourselves and another person. - Speak with honor and personal integrity even when the other person behaves badly. - Strengthen our capacity for creativity, wis.. creativity integrity intimacy love strength voice Harriet Lerner Ph.D.
7e11814 The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner (so helpful for couples in that "I'm screaming and he's/she's shutting down" cycle) and her new book, Why Won't You Apologize?" Timothy Ferriss
0a830f1 at what point does our reach exceed our grasp? And if we find that answer it may be worth thinking about the consequences of reaching that point. Matthew Sprange
423d031 The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't Karen Joy Fowler
72faed8 In conclusion, they should let me out of jail. Barrett Brown
3510072 Robin had taken refuge in the bathroom before Matthew could realize she was hyperventilating again. Sitting on the bathroom floor, she had recourse to the technique she had learned in therapy, cognitive restructuring, which sought to identify the automatic thoughts of pursuit, pain and danger that sprang into her mind given certain triggers. He's just some idiot who works for the Sun. He wants a story, that's all. You're safe. He can't get .. Robert Galbraith
344aec1 They were famous for having bad tempers, but then again, if you sprang into existence to discover that your Creators were human assholes, you'd be pissed off, too. Matthew Mather
2ae3e0b This is not the "rule of law"...it is the "rule of law enforcement." Barrett Brown
d40e58a Two months later she said come and get your son Barrington Levy
5c614f7 I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes. Karen Joy Fowler
6a6e46f In song Here I Come, Here I Come (album) (1984-1985). Barrington Levy
faf90b9 The list of those who told me they had been physically assaulted by David Miscavige: Mike Rinder, Gale Irwin, Marty Rathbun, Jefferson Hawkins, Tom De Vocht, Mark Fisher, Bruce Hines, Bill Dendiu, Guy White, Marc Headley, and Stefan Castle. Those who said they had witnessed such abuse: John Axel, Marty Rathbun, Janela Webster, Tom De Vocht, Marc Headley, Eric Knutson, Amy Scobee, Dan Koon, Steve Hall, Claire Headley, Mariette Lindstein, Joh.. Lawrence Wright
509a13c At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself. Karen Joy Fowler
37b2f4d This linking of bullying to mental illness and the idea that it causes 'life-long damage' really concerns me. I fear it is the anti-bullying industry that is the real threat to young people's state of mind. Rather than reassure, it adamantly stresses, indeed exaggerates, the harmful effects of bullying. Such scaremongering is impacting on young people's coping mechanisms and possibly exacerbating the problem. As such, it actually contribute.. Claire Fox