“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.”

—  Theodore Roszak

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American social historian, social critic, writer 1933–2011

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