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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Jack Abbott

  School, Reform, Causes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

  Nick Rhodes

  Trust, Letting Go, Ideas

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• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  Jack Abbott

  Anger, Moments, Imagine

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Distance, Leader, Demise

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• But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Mean, People

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• My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

  Garth Nix

  Parent, Harsh, Kill Me

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• I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

  Nikki Cox

  Terrible, Automobile

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• This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

  Philip K. Dick

  Discovery, Insane, Agree

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Success demands paranoia.

  Joseph Finder

  Demand

  Joseph Finder (2014). “Paranoia”, p.20, Head of Zeus

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• There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

  Billy Joel

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• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.

  Judah Smith

  Powerful, Worry, Relax

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

  Terence McKenna

  Taken, Marijuana, Psychosis

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• Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Faces, Demon

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.22, Penguin Group

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• Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ignorance, Vision, Mask

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Leader, Stories

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• Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

  Larry King

  Offending, Language, Worried

  Larry King, Bill Gilbert (2007). “How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication”, p.105, Three Rivers Press

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• If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

  Tacitus

  May, Knows, Ifs

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• Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Kitchen, Too Much, Garlic

  Thomas Pynchon (2013). “Bleeding Edge: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Data, Truth Is

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, August, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.30, Zola Books

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• Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hate, Party, Groups

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Israel, Views, Elements

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• The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

  Max Lucado

  Water, Car, Risk

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• When you could discern a real threat from everything else, it was called caution. When you couldn't, it was called paranoia. ... You cannot separate paranoia from knowledge. The more you know, the more possibilities you see. The more possibilities you see, the more possibilities someone else sees. The more "someones" there are, the more "they" there are. It's a matter of simple math before you realize that They might not like you.

  Craig Clevenger

  Real, Math, Simple

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