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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy.”

101. “For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “We ate with plastic. It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital.”

102. “We ate with plastic. It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity. Experience is thick. Perceptions are thickened and dulled Time is slow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception. The body temperature is low. The pulse is sluggish. The immune system is half-asleep. The organism is torpid and brackish. Even the reflexes are diminished, as if the lower leg couldn’t be bothered to jerk itself out of its stupor when the knee is tapped.”

103. “The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity. Experience is thick. Perceptions are thickened and dulled Time is slow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception. The body temperature is low. The pulse is sluggish. The immune system is half-asleep. The organism is torpid and brackish. Even the reflexes are diminished, as if the lower leg couldn’t be bothered to jerk itself out of its stupor when the knee is tapped.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.”

104. “Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way -slowly- chopping off pieces of it and lobbing them into the dustbin with a little click to let you know time was gone. Click, swish, “Checks,” swish, click: another five minutes of life down the drain. And spent in this place.”

105. “When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way -slowly- chopping off pieces of it and lobbing them into the dustbin with a little click to let you know time was gone. Click, swish, “Checks,” swish, click: another five minutes of life down the drain. And spent in this place.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “I know what you are, said his look. What were we, that they could know us so quickly and so well?”

106. “I know what you are, said his look. What were we, that they could know us so quickly and so well?”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “Five-minute. Fitfteen-minutes. Half-hour checks. Some nurses said, “Checks,” when they opened the door. Click, turn the knob, swish, open the door, “Checks,” swish, pull the door shut, turn the knob. Five-minute checks. Not enough time to drink a cup of coffee, read three pages of a book, take a shower.”

107. “Five-minute. Fitfteen-minutes. Half-hour checks. Some nurses said, “Checks,” when they opened the door. Click, turn the knob, swish, open the door, “Checks,” swish, pull the door shut, turn the knob. Five-minute checks. Not enough time to drink a cup of coffee, read three pages of a book, take a shower.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “I liked that movie-maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.”

108. “I liked that movie-maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “Once, these thoughts must have had a meaning. They must have meant what they said. But repetition has blunted them. They have become background music, a Muzak medley of self-hatred themes.”

109. “Once, these thoughts must have had a meaning. They must have meant what they said. But repetition has blunted them. They have become background music, a Muzak medley of self-hatred themes.”

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Susanna Kaysen Quote: “Nothing,” I said. “It’s quiet. It’s like – I don’t know. It’s like falling off a cliff.” I laughed. “I guess my life will just stop when I get married.”

110. “Nothing,” I said. “It’s quiet. It’s like – I don’t know. It’s like falling off a cliff.” I laughed. “I guess my life will just stop when I get married.”

— Susanna Kaysen

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