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"The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety."
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"As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire."
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"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"
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"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."
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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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"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
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"Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids."
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
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"Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?"
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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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"All problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us."
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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
Fact
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
Work
"I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for."
Life
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Life
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
History
"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy
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