"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."

Psychology, Ego, Identity, Self-Deception, Awakening

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"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."

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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."

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"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

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"I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art."

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

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"When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state."

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"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."

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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

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"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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