"The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad."

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Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

Jonathan Kellerman

#Stress Quotes #School Quotes #Mad Quotes

“Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.”

Source : "Hanging With Lindsey Wixson". Interview with Zeke Turner, wwd.com. February 7, 2011.
“Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.”
“You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.”
“Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.”
“Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.”
“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.”
“Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.”
“I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.”

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