There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually… - Jane Alison
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually…
- Jane Alison
You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful. - Jane Alison
You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.
When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette. - Jane Alison
When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.
I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing. - Jane Alison
I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.
In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy. - Jane Alison
In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.
Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better. - Jane Alison
Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.
I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards her… - Jane Alison
I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards her…
I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it. - Jane Alison
I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.
I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world. - Jane Alison
I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.
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