Dirk Wittenborn quotes

Dirk Wittenborn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.”
-- Dirk Wittenborn

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“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!”
-- Dirk Wittenborn

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“A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.”
-- Dirk Wittenborn

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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.”

Source : "Outkast Is A State Of Mind". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2012.
“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
“The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.”
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
“Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.”
“I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.”
“You are actually the worst person I have ever met.”
“I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.”
“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.”

Source : Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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