Best 11 quotes of Michael Gruber on MyQuotes

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa čega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake noći svojeg života. Pa što onda znači ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa nećeš znati, po definiciji.

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.