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...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
Writer
DK
Always
Granted
Life
Constantly
Like
Taken
World
State
Fluctuating
Fact
Pimples
Facts
Neurosis
States
Illness
Whole
Madness

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