Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
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Traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems.
