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Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
Susanna Kaysen
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Susanna Kaysen
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 11
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Cambridge
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I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.
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Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.
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It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.
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You could also request to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to request to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.
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I'm your mind, it claims. You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses
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I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted
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There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.
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You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.
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But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.
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A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
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I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.
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An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
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Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
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What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?
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Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
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When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
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Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
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As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
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When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
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Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.
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