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Letter "H" » hysteria
«Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.»
«Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.»
«To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
confront, excessive, hysteria, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishing, muck, mucked, muck about, region, region of, too little, written language
«Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria»
Author: Vance Packard
(Writer)
| Keywords:
hysteria, monotony, rock and, rock and roll, summed, tinge, tinged, tingeing
«I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
cultivated, hysteria, pass over, singular, singulars, vertigo, warning, wing
«The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
hysteria, maintain, promoting, undeserving, undeserving of
«When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
deceiving, fashionable, hysteria, imperative, imperatives, join us, madmen, pragmatic, thin, whine
«I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Character
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characters, desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identify, reach out, seemingly, The characters, verge, verges
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