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Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.


John Irving

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IRVING PENN Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH