Cathartic Quotes - Page 4

• There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughts/feelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Feelings, Ambitious

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• There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

  Liev Schreiber

  Editing, Rooms, Hours

  "Q+A: Liev Schreiber". Esquire Magazine Interview with Rowan West, October, 2005.

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• Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Healing, Journey

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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