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As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,…

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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

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I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and… — Jo Brand
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it;… — Nicolas Chamfort
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these… — Chanakya
This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.… — Marjorie Harris
If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it… — James Alexander Thom
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. — Missy Elliot
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get… — Armie Hammer
At what point is a wasp ever going to have a chat with a spider? — Karl Pilkington
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest. — Matsuo Basho
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their… — Jean-Henri Fabre
I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal… — Elena Ferrante

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