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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 having the right information.

  William S. Burroughs

  Information

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• I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

  Pat Conroy

  Dignity, Found, Position

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

  Mordecai

  Canada, Credentials, Wells

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• Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Enemy, World

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

  Jim Butcher

  Family And Friends, Cozy, My Friends

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.51, Penguin

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• .. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Play, Way

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• Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Taste, Danger

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

  Cher

  Girl, Money, Pet

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• I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  Piers Anthony

  Princess, Thinking, Rose

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• Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

  Paul Brodeur

  People, Disease, Social

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• I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Believe, Fate

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• Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

  Louis Simpson

  Creativity, Character, Views

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Night, Men, Air

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• I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

  Johnny Vegas

  Drama, Las Vegas, Serious

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• Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Frustration, Ideas

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 2, p. 24, 1961.

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• One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Engineering, Redundancy, Persons

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• The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Enemy, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 03, 2010

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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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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Envy, Boredom

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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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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