Girl Interrupted Quotes - Page 2

• It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.

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• I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Sad, Suicide, Thinking

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.36, Vintage

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• Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...

  Susanna Kaysen

  Growing Up, Believe, Secret

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Wind, America, Columbus

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• The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Lying, Light

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• This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Titles, Would Be

  Girl, Interrupted (1993)

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• Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Mean, Broken

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