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There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

— Glenn Close

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

— Edward Zwick

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

— Tyler Perry

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

— Donald Johanson

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

— Tracy Morgan

We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

— William S. Burroughs

Cats are useless.

— Mark Zupan

✗Opposing Perspectives

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

— Mindy Kaling

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

— Garrison Keillor