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"While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

"Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them."

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."
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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."

"The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do."

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
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