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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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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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"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."
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"We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.' A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.A bad dream. I remembered everything."
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"Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors."
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"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."
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"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
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"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship
"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
Spiritual
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship
"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing
"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back."
Behavior
"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
Action
"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
Humor
"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
Life
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
Philosophy
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