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Marya Hornbacher is an American author known for her memoirs, which offer profound insights into mental health and the struggles of marginal lifestyles. Born on April 4, 1974, her works are based on her own experiences, including severe eating disorders and mental health issues.

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“Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.”

Men Problem Seems Age Common Boys Groups Becoming Men And Women Backgrounds Becoming More Anorexia Bulimia Impervious Anorexia And Bulimia

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“I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.”

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“After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.”

Speak Difficult Silence Lifetime

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“I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.”

Knows Facts Interesting Easier Sickness

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“You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.”

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“I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.”

Self Critical Driven Perfectionist

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“When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.”

Humans Character Deals Nonfiction

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“Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.”

Believe Children Information

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“You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.”

People Teach Talent Ears Seats Pants

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“My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!”

Knows Teacher Written Students Details Physics

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“The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.”

Life Is Dying Biggest Fear

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“My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.”

Way Littles Different Kids Parent Little Kid

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“I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.”

People Thinking Illness Maintenance Chronic Illness High Maintenance

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“I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.”

Knows Mind Humans Heart Doe Body Planets Creatures Absolutes Seven Billions Have Faith Yearning Questioning Crowded God Exists

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“I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.”

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“It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.”

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“My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.”

Years Problem Would Be Together Past Mother Father Difficult Middle Typical Mother And Father Middle Ground

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“When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?”

People Way Writing Looks Helping Creative Written Risk Teaching Willing Careful Nonfiction Creative Nonfiction

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Born: April 4, 1974
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Madness: A Bipolar LifeRelated source material

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and BulimiaRelated source material

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