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Quotes by Ruth Harris

Ruth Harris's insights on:

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Great minds work in similar directions.
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Just because I'm hungry doesn't mean I'm going to fall in love with a hamburger.
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It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 
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I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me.
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... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.
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To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.
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...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a bitch when she was threatened. It was the only effective self-defense she had learned. The more frightened ... felt, the harder she lashed out. It was her offense and her defense.  ...the bitch was also ... the poet. She was a very sensitively constructed sending and receiving mechanism, extremely vulnerable and extremely wary.