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"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

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"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."

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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."

"Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left."

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."

"Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do."

"I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony."
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