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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.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mean, Voice, Differences

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press

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• Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, Would Be, Might

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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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.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, Worst

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.223, Seven Stories Press

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• Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Crazy, Knowing, Schizophrenia

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• Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Night, Lasts, Mental Illness

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

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• I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

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  Military, Real, Sacrifice

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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.

  Mark Vonnegut

  War, People, Important

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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, Mother, Voice

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.6, Delacorte Press

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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

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.163, Delacorte Press

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• My only hope was to be polite.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Polite

  Mark Vonnegut (2002). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.190, Seven Stories Press

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• Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Spiritual, Father, Writing

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