Top 36 Joanne Greenberg Quotes
#1. Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.
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#2. What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
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#3. Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
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#4. And what does that signify to you? he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.
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#5. There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
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#6. She was, after all, at home on D ward, more than she had ever been anywhere, and for the first time as a recognizable and defined thing - one of the nuts. She would have a banner under which to stand.
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#7. Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?
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#8. Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
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#9. The memory may not change in form, but years of underlining give it a weight that can become tremendous. Each of the many, many times you are called to remember the cold of abandonment, the bars, and the loneliness, this experience says deep inside you, 'You see? That's the way life is, after all.
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#10. She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.
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#13. Suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.
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#14. A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.
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#15. The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
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#17. The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only a human-sized anger!
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#18. Here as elsewhere, the attackers were favored above the attacked. They were not so far from the world after all.
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#19. I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.
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#20. Suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
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#21. The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie ... and a bore, too!
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#22. The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
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#23. Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill - that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person and was at the same time also his inferior.
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#24. If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.
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#26. All children blackmail their parents with their innocence.
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#28. The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end ... in the end it is our only ally.
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#32. The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.
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#33. And if I fight, then for what?"
"For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
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#35. The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.
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#36. Among equals gratitude is reciprocal; her gratitude to these Titans, who called themselves average and were unaware of their own tremendous strength in being able to live, only made her feel more lost, inept, and lonely than ever.
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