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...there more contented people?" ¶On self-analysis: "The psychiatrist, like the plumber, may find his most difficult task is that of repairing the damage done by those who first tried to analyze the trouble and repair it themselves." ¶"Five minutes of honest relaxation playing with a kitten and a piece of string can be a better therapy than a frantic trip around the world . . ." ¶"During [World War II] it became my peculiar duty to serve as psychiatric examiner at the military induction center in Los Angeles-a task, that might be compared with an attempt to judge...
...enough to tame him, to drive out his fear-the power of kindness. I spent long hours with him day after day. I fed him and spoke softly to him, never with the angry voice others had used." Within six months he could play with the tiger like a kitten...
...marry a ghost and bear him a kitten...
...there were 13 clocks that wouldn't run. A cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in search of a kitten to tear apart or a handsome young prince to feed to his geese...
Like a lot of other ragtimers, Texas-born Scott Joplin served his time rocking a piano in that cradle of jazz, the sporting house. But unlike flamboyant, razor-handy Jelly Roll Morton, Joplin was, as one old friend recalls, the kind of man who "never hurt anybody. A kitten could knock him down. He wasn't much socially, but most everyone had a lot of respect for Scott because he never threw himself away...