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Carmen Tracey
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“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.”
― Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
― Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
Young Adult Fiction!
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— last activity Jun 06, 2025 07:55AM
a group for anyone up for a little teen induced fiction! embarrassed about that book you read when you were thirteen and secretly still love? don't b ...more
Weird Fiction Writers
— 253 members
— last activity Apr 13, 2022 03:50PM
Add new writing here for an honest and friendly critique or just to be read by those who love the genre.
Preview This...
— 53 members
— last activity May 07, 2012 01:23PM
This group is for friends who might be interested in previewing my writing before I go to print.
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