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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'


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IRVIN S. COBB As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
IRVIN S. COBB I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's ve...
IRVIN D. YALOM I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and...
IRVIN D. YALOM I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...
IRVIN D. YALOM If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
IRVIN D. YALOM Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOM We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work ...
IRVIN D. YALOM I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
IRVIN S. COBB It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to pro...
IRVIN D. YALOM Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find desp...
IRVIN D. YALOM A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
IRVIN S. COBB ...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN ...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOM Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him the...
IRVIN D. YALOM The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been fo...
IRVIN D. YALOM She was rare, few and far between
She suspected he would be as well
And the thought of two...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep

How did we ...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing ...
IRVIN D. YALOM Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the re...
IRVIN D. YALOM