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“Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.”
― The Golem and the Jinni
― The Golem and the Jinni
“Here’s the weird part: even when I was in the darkest and most despairing times of my depression, I still found depression funny. It was funny to me that the illness distorted my view of the real world like a funhouse mirror. It was funny that I could be immobilized by something that had no basis in a broken bone or bacteria or any tangible factor. And when other people, especially comedians and writers, shared their experiences with depression and those experiences were resonant with my own, I could laugh because we were all getting fooled together. I laughed in the same way an audience laughs at a particularly good trick pulled off by a magician. “We’ve all been deceived, but we don’t know how!”
― The Hilarious World of Depression
― The Hilarious World of Depression
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“I’d learned, the hard way, that it makes no sense to tell someone to go to hell unless you have the power to send him there.”
― Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
― Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
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