Patty Duke Quotes

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• 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,…
• My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
• Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.
• You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity
• All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.
• The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress.…
• I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is…
• If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient
• I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother
• The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death
• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks
• I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
• I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself
• I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up
• I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am…
• I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned
• I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure
• I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

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