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"I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness."
Life
"The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up."
Being
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure."
Woman
"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me."
Age
"I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up."
Want
"Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them."
Life
"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
Inspirational
"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
Depression
"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
Death
"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother."
Mother
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