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Ray Bradbury

Quote from Ray Bradbury

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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No Longer Human Osamu Dazai

Quote from Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.

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No Longer Human Osamu Dazai

Quote from Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.

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Moab Is My Washpot Stephen Fry

Quote from Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

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