bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, inability join in, phys — Stephen Fry, Moab Washpot

Moab Is My Washpot Stephen Fry

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

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