As a medium of exchange,... worrying regulates intimacy, and it is often an appropriate response to ordinary demands that begin to... feel excessive. But from a modernized Freudian view, worrying--as a reflex response to demand--never puts the self or the objects of its interest into question, and that is precisely its function in psychic life. It domesticates self-doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A really tight friendship is when you start to really care about the person. If he gets sick, you kind of start worrying about him...--or if he gets hit by a car. An everyday friend, you say, I know that kid, he's all right, and you don't really think much of him. But a close friend you worry about more than yourself. Well, maybe not more, but about the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex ...about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some people say the business about the jolly fat person is a myth, that all of us chubbies are neurotic, sick, sad people. I disag...ree. Fat people may not be chortling all day long, but they're a hell of a lot nicer than the wizened and shriveled. Thin people turn surly, mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot fudge sundae for easing tension. Thin people don't like gooey soft things because they themselves are neither gooey nor soft. They are crunchy and dull, like carrots. They go straight to the heart of the matter while fat people let things stay all blurry and hazy and vague, they way things actually are. Thin people want to face the truth. Fat people know there is no truth.... Thin people believe in logic. Fat people see all sides. The sides fat people see are rounded blobs, usually gray, always nebulous and truly not worth worrying about. But the thin person persists. "If you consume more calories than you burn," says one of my thin friends, "you will gain weight. It's that simple." Fat people always grin when they hear that. They know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a sense of going my own way, and I don't really think much about whether it's going against the grain. I don't really want ...to spend a lot of time worrying about how I am perceived by other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it were... a fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is n...ot something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »