“Yeah, no, that’s not mania. That’s called feeling normal.” The fleeting sense of being energized by, engaged in, hopeful about what I was doing felt so foreign I was sure it was symptomatic of another mental disorder.
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
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“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
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“I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl’s morality story wasn’t embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don’t have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.”
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
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