“Mysticism,” he likes to say, “is the antidote to fundamentalism.”
“Some 40 percent of people with serious mental illnesses have been arrested at some point in their lives.”
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“NAMI finds that men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women, and without the warning signs.”
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“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
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“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
― Letters and Papers from Prison
― Letters and Papers from Prison
“There are good evolutionary reasons why our memories fail us in the specific ways they do. If everything we looked at, smelled, heard, or thought about was immediately filed away in the enormous database that is our long-term memory, we’d be drowning in irrelevant information.”
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