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1 " Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia. "
― John Katzenbach , El psicoanalista (El psicoanalista, #1)
2 " In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none. "
― John Katzenbach
3 " No hay dos tristezas exactamente iguales "
4 " ... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse. "
5 " Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia. "
6 " Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan. "
7 " El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte "
8 " One of the things I learned in my maddest years was that one could be in a room, with walls and barred windows and locks on the doors, surrounded by other crazy people, or even stuffed into an isolation cell all alone, but that really wasn't the room one was in at all. The real room that one occupied was constructed by memory, by relationships, by events, by all sorts of unseen forces. Sometimes delusions. Sometimes hallucinations. Sometimes desires. Sometimes dreams and hopes, or ambitions. Sometimes anger. That was what was important: to always recognize where the real walls were. (176) "
― John Katzenbach , La historia del loco
9 " Hasta los malos poetas aman la muerte "
10 " Ése es uno de los principales problemas de estar loco: nunca estás seguro de las cosas "
11 " Daba igual la cantidad de cerrojos que tuviera en la puerta, no impedirían la entrada a mis peores miedos. "
12 " El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando. "
13 " What I was, isn’t what I am. And what I am, isn’t yet what I can be. "
14 " I can no longer hear my voices, so I am a little lost. My suspicion is they would know far better how to tell this story. At least they would have opinions and suggestions and definite ideas as to what should go first and what should go last and what should go in the middle. They would inform me when to add detail, when to omit extraneous information, what was important and what was trivial. After so much time slipping past, I am not particularly good at remembering these things myself and could certainly use their help. A great many events took place, and it is hard for me to know precisely where to put what. And sometimes I'm unsure that incidents I clearly remember actually did happen. A memory that seems one instant to be as solid as stone, the next seems as vaporous as a mist above the river. That's one of the major problems with being crazy: you're just naturally uncertain about things. (9) "
15 " Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real. "
16 " La vida rara vez era tan sencilla y tan armoniosa, normalmente nos estorbamos los unos a los otros. "
17 " Las manos no son lo verdaderamente peligroso. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es, es lo que tenemos en la cabeza". "
18 " En mi loca vida había muchas cosas fuera de mi alcance. Supongo que debí de haber sabido que me enamoraría de la persona mas exótica que conocería en mi vida. "
19 " -A veces lo que mas me asusta no es lo desconocido, sino lo previsible y comprensible. "
― John Katzenbach , The Wrong Man
20 " Lugares impersonales para hombres y mujeres que ganan dinero y lo gastan con la mayor rapidez posible y que piensan que, de algun modo, eso tiene sentido. "
