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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. (Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook)

Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance ‘do the right thing.’ Well, as many have discovered, you don’t really know what you’ll do in the dark till the lights go out

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