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Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated ans... - MORE Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answers. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: "Lieben und arbeiten" (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.

Erik H. Erikson

work and family life: general

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The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge... - MORE The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I've no spade to follow men like them.

Seamus Heaney

labor

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Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... - MORE Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday
The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women,
Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives
Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden
Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons
Back now, all of them, to their local lives....

Philip Larkin

home | entertainment

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Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword
Carried her whom I called my life away;... - MORE Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword
Carried her whom I called my life away;
Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!

Petrarch

death | envy

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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused—in place ... - MORE We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused—in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery—by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press—their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

Edgar Allan Poe

journalism | journalists

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Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ...
Anne: I know, dear. And some ... - MORE Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ...
Anne: I know, dear. And some of your other best friends are Methodists, but you never bother to say it.

Moss Hart

friends | friendship | anti-Semitism | prejudice

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Have you checked the children yet? Have you checked the children yet?

Fred Walton

baby-sitting

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