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• The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

  Michel Foucault

  Strong, Vocabulary, Jurisprudence

  "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

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• The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Successful, Men

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doe, Lost, Wander

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• If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

  Joan Bauer

  School, Doe, Needs

  Joan Bauer (2009). “Peeled”, p.80, Penguin

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• If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Wall, Wind

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• Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper." "You mean Dr. Pepper?" "For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Mean, Doctors, People

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “The Back Door of Midnight”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

  Courtney Love

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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• Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Soul, Empowerment

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• We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Fun, Race, Media

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• There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.

  Darynda Jones

  Carrots, Desks, Said

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.65, Macmillan

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• There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

  David Foster Wallace

  Marijuana, Emotional, Anxiety

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• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

  Phil Donahue

  Loss, Catholic, Lost Friendship

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, World

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• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Sadness, Sleep

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Animal, Companionship, Speechless

  "The Devil's Notebook".

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Vulgarity Is, Bullshit, Empowerment

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Frank Herbert

  Hard Times, People, Needs

  "Dune".

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• Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Space, Sound

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• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doors, Understanding, Humanity

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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