"Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it."

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Margo Jefferson

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“Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.”
“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.”
“The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.”

Source : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister”
“That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.”
“I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.”

Source : "Kate Flannery On ‘StandUp In Stilettos’: ‘The Girls Can Play Just As Hard As The Boys’" by Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
“I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.”
“What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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