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“Individuals who are not comfortable or adept with rituals sometimes evade them by substituting procedures. They can be found, for example, among people who like to help the hostess with preparing or serving food and drink at parties.”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

“Everyone carries his parents around inside of him.”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

“And there is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unful-fillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“but it is the waiting that is unbearable, this suspension of time when something has not yet happened and where we feel how very useless it is to struggle”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog