Quotes by Mark Vonnegut - Page 1

My only hope was to be polite.
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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.
Mark Vonnegut / Memoirist
Reading
Reading And Writing
Writing
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Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.
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Armor
Lord
Stuff
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Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
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Feelings
Kicks
People
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We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.
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I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.
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Military
Real
Sacrifice
Take Care
Sacrifices
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None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
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Sick
Wells
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Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
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Adults
Childhood
Forgotten
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Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
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Crazy
Knowing
Schizophrenia
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Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
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Lasts
Mental Illness
Night
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Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
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Cancer
Flu
Ulcers
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Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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Father
Spiritual
Writing
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It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
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Crazy
Memories
Regret
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Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
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Crazy
Ideas
Paper
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Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
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Book
Might
Would Be
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Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
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Talking
Voice
World
Talked
Voices
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I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
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War
Important
People
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Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
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Jobs
People
Unpredictable Things
Nowhere
Lousy
Life Care People
Mostly
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As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
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Mental Illness
Schizophrenia
Worst
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The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service
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Reading
Thinking
Writing
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With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
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Feelings
Important
Mental Illness
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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
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Reading
Way
Writing
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There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.
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Father
Loner
People
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There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'
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Introvert
Loner
Okay
Life Father Me
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What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.
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Book
Different
People
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My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
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Beautiful
Charming
Craziest
Dying
Heard
Mother
Radiant
Voice
Mother Beautiful Always
Saw
Lay
Visions
Voices
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And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'
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Crazy
Forgiving
People
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Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
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Certainty
Dependent
Luck
Paint
Stuck
Life Art Yourself
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Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
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Art
Giving
Thinking
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I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.
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Feel Better
Gun
Suicide
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When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.
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Differences
Mean
Voice
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I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.
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War
Children
East
Middle East
Military
Military Force
Sick
Take Care
Terrorism
Expert
Help People
Raise
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Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.
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Causes
Fun
Team
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Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.
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Book
Doctors
Son
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Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.
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Jesus
Fear
Beautiful
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Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.
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Dream
Crazy
Depressing
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The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.
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Children
Grace
Making Love
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I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.
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Running
Sleep
Thinking
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