Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter--my own nakedness or the grief of the reader? I want my stories to be so good they are unforgettable; to make my ideas live and my own terrors real for people I will never meet. It is a completely amoral writer's lust. If we begin to agree that some ideas are too dangerous, too bad to invite inside our heads, then we stop the storyteller completely. We silence everyone who would tell us something that might be painful in our vulnerable moments.
Dorothy AllisonTag: fear hurt enlighten vulnerable amoral-lust
One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.
Dossie EastonA king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
Idries ShahTag: fear fear-of-death
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.
Julie KlausnerTag: fear
I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear
Josh SternTag: humor fear dogs blind-date cologne
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos DefTag: fear soul death mind rap hip-hop mos-def
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Wendell BerryTag: fear truth civilization loneliness consumerism spirituality culture depression anxiety seeking
Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood. You spot something out of the corner of your eye. Before you know anything else, you know that this thing is very large and that it has no place in your ordinary frame of reference. A flaw in the world picture. Either it shouldn't be here or you shouldn't. Now the thing comes into full view. It is a grizzly bear, enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs. Jack, you have never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this grizzer is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a renewed sense of yourself, a fresh awareness of the self— the self in terms of a unique and horrific situation. You see yourself in a new and intense way. You rediscover yourself. You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment. The beast on hind legs has enabled you to see who you are as if for the first time, outside familiar surroundings, alone, distinct, whole. The name we give this complicated process is fear. [...]
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
(p. 218)
Tag: fear
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
Lee GoldbergTag: fear guilt cleansing rot one-way
Se hai paura di fare una cosa, pensa che sicuramente un idiota la farà al posto tuo.
Helenio HerreraTag: fear inspirational courage
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