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Rube Goldberg

"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."

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Akiroq Brost

"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."

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Akiroq Brost

"This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason."

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Akiroq Brost

"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."

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Akiroq Brost

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm what you call a Depression sailor."

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Akiroq Brost

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."

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Rube Goldberg
"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."

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Rube Goldberg
"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."

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Rube Goldberg
"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."

College

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Rube Goldberg
"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."

People

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Rube Goldberg
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."

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Rube Goldberg
"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."

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Rube Goldberg
"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."

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Rube Goldberg
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

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Rube Goldberg
"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."

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Rube Goldberg
"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."

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