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“Then old Pete was on his feet. “I’m tired!” was what he shouted, a strong, angry copper tone to his voice that no one had ever heard before. Everyone hushed. They were somehow ashamed. It was as if he had suddenly said something that was real and true and important and it had put all their childish hollering to shame.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“Ernest only has lovely things to say about you.”
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“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the great voice of millions chanting, "Shame. Shame. Shame." It's society's way of dealing with someone different.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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