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The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing. (Jon Ronson)
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. View quote
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Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony. View quote
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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. View quote
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My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did! View quote
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The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. View quote
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I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you've got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser. View quote
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Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. View quote
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We're living in post-nuance online times. View quote
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It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy. View quote
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I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds. (Jon Ronson)
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. View quote
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Psychopaths [make] the world go around... society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness... I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? View quote
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The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. View quote
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Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. View quote
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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. View quote
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The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. View quote
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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. View quote
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Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. View quote
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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter. View quote
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If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. (Jon Ronson)
Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. View quote
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Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. View quote
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I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. View quote
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. View quote
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