“I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.” IfsLittlesLastsDesireBrainKnownDepressionScaredIllnessMental IllnessDots Book:Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories Source: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.” IfsLittlesBrainMental HealthDots Book:Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories Source: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.” PeopleIfsHumansWellsLittlesBookFeelingsLyingDesireSecretEmotionToo MuchDangerRangeSensitiveMotiveExcessDiscoveringScolded Book:The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers Source: The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers
“Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.” IfsWantGivingYearsHeartTwoMightWishLosesAliveTomorrowGiving UpAnd LoveJust OneFiftyTwo YearsVery HappyNever Giving UpTwo Year OldsNever Lose HopeHappy To Be Alive Author:Betsy Lerner
