It’s very important to decode your own messages, like saying “I feel angry” instead of kicking the cat, and people who learn to do this find they are misunderstood less often and, as a fringe benefit, are clawed by fewer cats.
Merle Shain (1935-1989) Canadian journalist and author
Some Men Are More Perfect than Others (1973)
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Anger is a corpse in the closet: the longer locked up, the greater the stink when brought out.
Graham Ericsson (b. 1961) American technologist, writer, aphorist
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