Orts #962
“President Trump” is Dead
Long Live King Donald I
and g*d help us all
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Things will go on very much as they have hitherto — except that we shall have honesty and manliness instead of meanness and corruption.
— the New York Times, in 1860, endorsing Abraham Lincoln for the presidency
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Language can also be used to carry music, emotional signs and codes that communicate on a nonverbal level. As a psychoanalyst I try to listen to my patients’ words but also to their music.
Children do not develop a sense of time until they mourn— experiencing loss is necessary for us to appreciate past and future.
— the two quotes above are from Trump on the Couch, by Justin A. Frank, M.D. (2018)
The quotes which follow are all used as chapter epigraphs in the same book:
Whoever is a careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
— Albert Einstein
A lad out of control brings disgrace to his mother.
— Proverbs 29:15
You can’t have your brothers and eat them too.
— Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lying is universal—we all do it; we all must do it.
— Mark Twain
I can go back into my office and pick up the telephone and in 25 minutes 70 million people will be dead.
— Richard M. Nixon
A life isn’t significant except for its effect on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
All of the true things I’m about to tell you are shameless lies.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
— Sigmund Freud