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"In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past."
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"I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance, and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure."
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"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."
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"But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn't help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do."
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"He smiled. A sub shouldn't be terrified, but a little anxiety was good."
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"There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling."
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"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
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"In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity."
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"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."
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"I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be."
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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
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"It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism."
Addiction
"Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse."
Society
"Machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time."
Innovation
"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."
Creativity
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?"
Philosophy
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Politics
"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."
Society
"My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
Complexity
"I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper."
Humor
"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
Ideology
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