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![Eiry Nieves](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1402034984i/6472332._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Many a person over the years has tried- both successfully and unsuccessfully, to get rid of their inner demons. Those who are successful are deemed artists, those who are not are call dreamers at best and lunatics at worse. But where exactly resides that line on which two worlds collide? Does somebody know? Is somebody fit to tell? Who's to say that those deemed lunatics are not just successes on the making? Who says that those who claim to be just a tad bit crazy are not just as crazy as those that had completely lost it? Maybe, and bear with me here…everyone is as crazy as the one before them and the next one could ever possibly be. Maybe at the end- it's just that some have mastered creating a façade of calmness and collection while others don't bother going through all that trouble anymore, if they ever did. Perhaps we all have demons…it's just that some people have demons far more toxic and difficult to ignore than others.”
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![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
![Bret Easton Ellis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1638490234i/2751._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“If all of your friends are morons is it a
felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if
you blow their fucking heads off with a
thirty-eight magnum?”
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felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if
you blow their fucking heads off with a
thirty-eight magnum?”
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![Amy Reed](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1246604521i/2871046._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Maybe there's a galaxy with a planet that's just a little more tilted, with a sun that shines just a little bit darker, and that's where I'm supposed to be, where it somehow makes sense to feel this broken.”
― Crazy
― Crazy
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