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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly th

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan

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