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• I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, World, Bears

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

  Peter Cameron

  Summer, New York, Stars

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

  Peter Cameron

  Would Be, Way, Things To Do

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Drs, Gaps

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Pressure, Charming

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

  Peter Cameron

  Names, Perfect, Addiction

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.149, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• I only feel like myself when I am alone.

  Peter Cameron

  Feels

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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