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For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.Frances Farmer
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.Frances Farmer
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.Frances Farmer
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.Frances Farmer
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.Frances Farmer
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.Frances Farmer