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I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.
Joaquin Phoenix / Actor
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Roles
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When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.
Mason Cooley /
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Mirrors
Sorrow
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Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
Archibald Macleish / Poet
Men
Forever
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If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet
Women
Lovers
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Stones
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You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
Helene Cixous / Professor
Beautiful
Laughing
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
Technology
Medusa
Yield
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
John Updike / Novelist
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Steps
Trying
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing / Psychiatrist
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Stones
Theory
Underworld
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Descended
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Met
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Stone
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Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Power
Majority
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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)
Thomas Ligotti / Author
Enlightenment
Heart
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.
R. D. Laing / Psychiatrist
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