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Quote by Greg van Eekhout

“As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.”

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Greg van Eekhout is a fiction writer known for his works in the science fiction and fantasy genres. His specific birth and death dates are unknown. more

“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.”

Ifs Book Self Hard Enough Written Son All Things Doctors Add Notes Patient Exes Harvard Note To Self Self Being

Author:Mark Vonnegut

“Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.”

“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Childhood Adults Forgotten

Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.”

Stuff Lord Armor

Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.”

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”

Way Writing Reading Felt Notion Subversive Reading And Writing

Author:Mark Vonnegut

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