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I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on…

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. — Clive Barker
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. — Timothy Leary
The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we… — Barack Obama
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.… — Philip K. Dick
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in… — David Foster Wallace
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or… — Lorrie Moore
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates

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