[on the fear of a nervous breakdown] I don't think I ever lost this fear. It turned me into a default… — John Cooper Clarke
[on the fear of a nervous breakdown] I don't think I ever lost this fear. It turned me into a default existentialist by the time I was six: I quickly learned that the pursuit of happiness is largely pointless, happiness being the only target one merely has to aim at in order to miss.
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