"As well as being one of the worst……" — Mark Vonnegut
"As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers."
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29 Quotes by Mark Vonnegut
Mark Vonnegut has 29 quotes on this site.
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What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they…
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None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
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Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
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Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children.…
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Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and…
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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...
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And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for…
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I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers…
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When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at…
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My only hope was to be polite.
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Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
— Christian Bale
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But…
— Drew Barrymore
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called…
— Alfred Adler
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
— Stella Adler
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