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Every object, the old man had said, is but an interpretation of every other object. There is no sure knowledge, only endless process.
Green Eyes (1984)
“Find your own answers, your own salvation. If you can’t do that,” said Donnell, “then to Hell with you.”
Green Eyes (1984)
I submit that all psychotherapy is manipulation; that as psychiatrists we do not heal people, but manipulate their neuroses into functional modes.
Green Eyes (1984)
The necessary had been accomplished. That’s the way Les Invisibles work. Singular, unquantifiable events. Impossible to treat statistically, to define with theory.
Green Eyes (1984)
“An attic’s the afterlife of a house,” said Otille, opening the door. “Or so my mother used to say.”
Green Eyes (1984)
Manipulate? Yes, I manipulated. And despite the ensuing events, I would do so again, for it is the function of psychiatry to encourage the living to live.
Green Eyes (1984)
It was easy to see how one could think of the family as a single terrible creature stretching back through time, some genetic flaw or chemical magic binding the spirit to the blood.
Green Eyes (1984)
“I could sell you sorry fuckers anything,” he repeated, “as long as it had a bright package and was wrapped around a chewy nugget of fear. I could be your green-eyed king. But it would bore me to be the salvation of cattle like you.
Green Eyes (1984)
The half moon sailed high, sharp-winged shadows skimming across it, and the conical hills and the vine-shrouded trees washed silver-green under the moonlight had the look of a decaying city millennia after a great catastrophe.
Green Eyes (1984)
We uncovered new forces, we took a step along what may be an endless path toward divinity, we redirected the entire thrust of psychoanalytic theory, and, as with all knowledge, we found that deeper and more compelling mysteries yet lay beyond those we had reduced to the security of fact.
Green Eyes (1984)