“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
Source: High Fidelity
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“It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.”
Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 6.
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 7, p. 114
Response in 1965, to Moshe Bejski, one of the Schindlerjuden, who later a became a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel and president of the Commission to honor the Righteous Among the Nations, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow http://www.auschwitz.dk/why/why.htm.
“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
Sam Harris, During speech, The New Atheists (January 5, 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2007/01/05/january-5-2007-the-new-atheists/3734/
2000s
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 43
Source: Living, Loving, and Learning (1982), p. 53