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1 " But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form.Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle.Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are. "
― Steve Almond
2 " Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery. "
3 " Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When the force is that of other human beings, we speak of atrocities. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection, and meaning.… Traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life.… They confront human beings with the extremities of helplessness and terror, and evoke the responses of catastrophe. "
― Judith Lewis Herman , Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
4 " The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... "
― Lydia Lunch , Incriminating Evidence: The Collected Writings of Lydia Lunch
5 " It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from. "
― Mark Lawrence , Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1)
6 " Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. "
