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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. - Marsha

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

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

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Shopping
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Other Quotes from
Mental Illness
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag

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Mental Illness

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness

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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Mental Illness

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness

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sad

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. – Dave Van Ronk

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Time

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? – Basil Bunting

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Temptation