The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting

Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling I don’t think it’s any of that it’s helpless … it’s absence of control and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that I have no use for it whatsoever.’

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]

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Toni Morrison