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So here it is as simple as I can explain it.... I work with the mentally ill. I used to work in long term care but now I work in a hospital where they come in as crazy as they can get. This is something that has an effect on people. Bathing in madness every day is a lot like looking into the abyss for too long, you are just never the same again.
Consider this as your fair warning about my journal. This is not a part of name brand reality, it is't even really all that similar to it, and there is no money back gurantee.
Keep that in mind.

If you want to hang out and watch just send me an e-mail or a comment to let me know. I just feel bad when I get added and don't notice for a week or so.

--A Laughing Shadow AKA The Madman among Lunatics

My collection of quotes:

“They said repent, and I wondered what they meant.”
-The Future by Leonard Cohen

"Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my deep and black desire."
-McBeth by Shakespear

"He never forgave her unholy alliance: a sexual encounter with a kitchen appliance."
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories by Tim Burton

"For we die every day; oblivion thrives not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives..."
-Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

"I catch hold of each day when the sun rises. I take it in my hands and my heart, and I try to hold it as long as possable. But suddenly it's a living thing, and it slips through my fingers and it's gone and it's night again, and I lie in the dark and mourn for that day gone as if it were a lover."
-Michael Coney - "Gods of the Greataway"

"Death was sweet; it smelled of wine and it stroked her hair."
-Vernoika decides to die by Paulo Coelho

"kisses on the dancefloor in my past
I need some comfort just like you
beating like a bass drum time goes by
I want the last dance just like you"
-Bullet By Covenant

"'Darkness is a state of mind.
I can go where you would stumble'
Was what you said to me
and I knew you were right."
-Blind by Wolfsheim

"For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.
and so I missed my chance with one of the lords of life."
-Snake by D.H. Lawrence

"It was long ago, it seems like yesterday.
I saw you standing in the rain, then I heard you say;
'I want to love but it comes out wrong.
I want to live but I don't belong.
I close my eyes and I see blood and roses.'"
-Blood and Roses by the Smithereens

"Whether you have gone to archangels and lovers or to infernal adventures, I don't know...."
-Hermetic Definition By H.D.

"'Ah,' said Arthur, 'this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of'"
-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"I'd like to meet you in a timeless, placeless place. Somewhere out of context and beyond all consequence."
- Language by Suzanne Vega

"This is my church and bless everything born here
damn anyone who tries to enter
and God help me when I'm in here."

and the last line...

"write your way home."
- God is in the typwriter by Nicole Blackman

"Be careful, there's nothing there."
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

"My glorious prose filtered throught the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it."
- from the movie Quills

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
- M. C. Escher

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
- Aldous Huxley

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
- Seneca

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
- Carl Sagan

"You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself."
- Marquis de Sade

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."
-Peter da Silva

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."
-Jane Wagner

"My library was dukedom large enough."
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"This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine."
-The Tempest by Shakespeare

"Two Angels together may bring forth a new God. We're both devils, and we only hurt each other."
- Enemies, a love story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm in love, Jack thought. He thought it the way one might think, after an accident with a chainsaw, "I've just lopped off my thumb," the thought as yet unaccompanied by pain.
- Irrational Fears by William Browning Spencer

"Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you'll never be
More than a twist in my sobriety"
- “Twist in my sobriety” by Tanita Tikaram

"What? Ya can't hear God talking to me?"
- A random madman I know

"She's like a broken fridge, she can't keep nothing cool."
- a co-worker

"Though I do not expect the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me, at times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory and a faint distrust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky. Then I look around me at my fellow men. And I go in fear."
-The island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

"We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
-"The Conscience of a Hacker aka The Hacker's Manifesto" by The Mentor

"When hate is in the seeds, you can only harvest weeds."
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"As soon as one begins to dream of someone - weather pleseantly or in a nightmare - one becomes a captive."
The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger

"... the ways of God and goverment and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal men to understand them."
- Time Enough For Love by Robert A Heinlein

"It's been my experience that people who have no vices have very few virtues."
-Abraham Lincoln

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