The past influences everything and dictates nothing. Auteur: Adam Phillips Copy Quote More from Adam Phillips “The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we ha…” “Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but…” “So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of …” “If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, s…”