I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. - Susanna Kaysen - Quotesmemo.com

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Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of “you” that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

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Susanna Kaysen

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

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This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

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Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

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Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

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Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

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Freedom was the price of privacy.

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.

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