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From Quotes by Susanna Kaysen
- This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in…
- It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about…
- Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t…
- Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate…
- In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend…
- For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and…
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