Repressed Wishes

Famous quotes containing the words repressed and/or wishes:

“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man’s encounter with God is how he shall make the experience—which is both natural and supernatural—understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today’s audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)