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The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".
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The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
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Those boys could hear a meat bone being dropped into soup half a mile away. If a man brushed a crumb from his beard, there was their knock on his door...
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What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?
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To experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.
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The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.
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I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.
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The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
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There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
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The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
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And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
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"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
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What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Joanne Greenberg
Born:
September 24, 1932
(age 92)
Bio:
Joanne Greenberg is an American author best known for the bestselling novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name.
Known for:
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)
In This Sign (1970)
A season of delight (1981)
With the snow queen (1991)
Where the road goes (1998)
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