Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.
Jennifer Stone
Most people wish to be ...
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like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
Jennifer Stone
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.
Jennifer Stone
We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
Jennifer Stone
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
Jennifer Stone
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
Jennifer Stone
