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We exist at the edge of the sky... we are not strangers
In fact I know you well.
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Here in these hands I hold the planet, bigger than the stars and stranger than the moon... when my mama is out looking for a boy/girl to beat, I play basketball.
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The schizophrenic is a perfect machine of self-destruction. The body and the mind wear down from fighting voices, living in filth, maneuvering the streets.
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Depression may not be funny to live through, but if you look at it in a certain way, if you look at yourself and others as creatures under some silly dark spell, it can help lift the weight.
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The main enemy of the untreated schizophrenic is time. The schizophrenic deteriorates. The schizophrenic must use up an inordinate amount of energy dealing with paranoid delusions and with the chaotic life style that results from being only marginally able to take care of oneself. It is the art of schizophrenia to sabotage any positive gestures of help.
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I'm not an unhappy person. I live in wild swings of mood, but I sure live!
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Our house was engulfed in flames, yet I was told repeatedly that there was no fire.
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Generalizations are worthless. Every person has a different story. Each one of them was brought low by a specific, personal demon. When you think this way, the conditions in the street become unbearable. You are in touch with the individual humanity of homeless people and can't block out their suffering by blaming a "global condition".
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What I set out to do was make an experimental musical theater. Broadway is a museum that's not moving forward, and musical theater should reflect what and how we are now — our pop culture, our political situation.
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When I looked at my own self and my own depression, it was funny. It was very sad, but it was also very funny.
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
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Elizabeth Swados
Born:
February 5, 1951
Died:
January 5, 2016
(aged 64)
Bio:
Elizabeth Swados was an American writer, composer, musician and theatre director.
Known for:
Runaways (1978)
My depression (2005)
Walking the Dog (2016)
The four of us (1991)
Hey you! C'mere! (2002)
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