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[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her. It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.Andrew Wilson
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Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.Dean Koontz
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I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalancedAgatha Christie
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We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.Venugopal Gupta
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Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness. Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.Ricardo Derose