Susanna Kaysen Quotes
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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The devil made me do it.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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A thought is a hard thing to control.
