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Susan Horowitz Cain is an American writer and lecturer, and author of the 2012 non-fiction book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people. In 2015, Cain co-founded Quiet Revolution, a mission-based company with initiatives in the areas of children , lifestyle, and the workplace. Cain's 2016 follow-on book, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, focused on introverted children and teens, the book also being directed to their educators and parents. Wikipedia  

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“We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

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"Introverts run the world -- quietly," CNN.com, March 18, 2012.

“Where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum… influences our choice of friends and partners, and how we make conversation, resolve differences and show love. It affects the careers we choose and whether or not we succeed at them.”

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"Revenge of the introverts: It's often assumed extroverts do best in life, but a new book reveals quite the opposite... ," The Daily Mail, March 25, 2012.

“Being able to exist in a place where light and dark meet is actually not a recipe for unhappiness. It is a recipe for a deeper kind of happiness.”

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Bastian, Jonathan (host). "Bittersweet: Susan Cain on the joy of sweet sorrow". KCRW.com (Los Angeles). May 21, 2022.

“Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 8 at p. 181

“How did a nation founded on so much heartache turn into a culture of normative smiles?”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 5, title, at p. 117

“The very highest states—of awe and joy, wonder and love, meaning and creativity—emerge from this bittersweet nature of reality. We experience them not because life is perfect—but because it's not.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 4 at pp. 92-93

“It's not that pain equals art. It's that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better. ... The quest to transform pain into beauty is one of the great catalysts of artistic expression.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 61

“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 56

“We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 2 at p. 36

“Upbeat tunes make us want to dance around our kitchens and invite friends for dinner. But it's sad music that makes us want to touch the sky.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 2 at p. 36

“In fact, you could say that what orients a person to the bittersweet is a heightened awareness of finality.”

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Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxxiii

“It doesn’t matter whether we consider ourselves "secular" or "religious": in some fundamental way, we're all reaching for the heavens.”

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Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxviii

“The secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging.”

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Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxvii

“The tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor; you could tear civilization down and rebuild it from scratch, and the same dualities would rise again. Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them.”

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Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxiii

“To me, one of the best things in the world is that sublime moment when a writer, artist, or musician manages to express something you’ve always felt but never articulated, or at least never quite so beautifully.”

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"About", SusanCain.net, May 2022.

“There’s something about writing books that gives us the permission to discuss things that aren’t as easy to talk about in everyday life. To me, the whole point of writing books is to look at the unexamined, the unspeakable, and the unarticulated.”

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Mineo, Liz (interviewer), "That feeling you get when listening to sad music? It's humanity", The Harvard Gazette, May 11, 2022.

“Human beings are a meaning-making species.”

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Walker, Suzy (interviewer). "The Big Happiness Interview: Susan Cain on how embracing sadness can make us happier", Metro, June 5, 2022.
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“When you listen to music, you can transcend your own pain and turn towards another and feel bonded with the whole of humanity because you know that they have felt that grief and love. By expressing it, by communing with that song or picture, you realize you are not alone.”

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Walker, Suzy (interviewer). "The Big Happiness Interview: Susan Cain on how embracing sadness can make us happier", Metro, June 5, 2022.
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“Living in a bittersweet state, with an intense awareness of life's fragility and the pain of separation, is an underappreciated strength and an unexpected path to wisdom, joy, and especially communion.”

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Bittersweet, Chapter 8 at pp. 183-4

“Longing is momentum in disguise: It's active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine.”

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Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxvi