"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

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Source : Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

Rita Mae Brown

#Funny Quotes #Friendship Quotes #Depressing Quotes

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”
“There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.”
“To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.”
“There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.”
“We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'”
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
“Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.”
“You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!”

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