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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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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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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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I'm always working on new music.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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A thought is a hard thing to control.
