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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
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DK
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Illness
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Madness
Always
Granted
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Like
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World
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Fluctuating
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Pimples
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Neurosis

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