Amy Bloom

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

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These are some quotes by American author Amy Bloom Writer, who was born in 1953.

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Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

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I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

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As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

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