"I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away."

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Suicide Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.”
“When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.”

Source : "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.
“The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.”
“The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.”
“I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!”
“A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.”
“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”
“In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.”

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