It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination. - Daphne Merkin
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
- Daphne Merkin
I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its strongest quality.… - Daphne Merkin
I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its strongest quality.…
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious … - Daphne Merkin
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious …
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its … - Daphne Merkin
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its …
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People who never suff… - Daphne Merkin
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People who never suff…
Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others excep… - Daphne Merkin
Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others excep…
Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten… - Daphne Merkin
Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten…
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. - Daphne Merkin
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight. - Daphne Merkin
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
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