"Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Psychosis Quotes #Violence Quotes #Illness Quotes

“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”

Source : "Down Beat" Magazine, October 28, 1971.
“There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.”
“Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.”
“In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.”

Source : Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.27, Vintage
“If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.”
“Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two”
“Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?”
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

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