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Quote by Susanna Kaysen

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”

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Susanna Kaysen is an American author best known for her autobiographical novel 'Girl, Interrupted,' which is based on her own experiences at the McLean Hospital psychiatric ward in the early 1960s. more

“[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.”

Men Philosophy Body Reality Today Belief Grows Doubt Alive Growing Tomorrow Flow Essence Series Fixed Questioning Fixation

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.”

Ends Television Piano

Author:Jane Campion

“Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.”

Looks Matter Moments Wanted Given Take Time

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

People Knows Want I Can Secret Know How Wonderful Tender Is The Night

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.”

Ifs Kind Hungry Explanation Deliverance Compunction

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”