I'm sure she has her fair share of trauma and anxiety and so on, but she never lets it get to her. She always just keeps going. And there's no rancor, if you'd been falsely accused of murder and convicted and falsely imprisoned for several years, you would presumably feel some rancor towards the people who did that to you, but she doesn't. She works really hard to feel empathy and curiosity and compassion towards everybody -- including her prosecutors.

Jon Ronson

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There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

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Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in al... by Jon Ronson

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

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I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

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It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

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I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.

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Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies.... by Jon Ronson

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

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You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put... by Jon Ronson

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.

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‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. by Jon Ronson

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

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We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to... by Jon Ronson

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

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We're living in post-nuance online times. by Jon Ronson

We're living in post-nuance online times.

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Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

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On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."

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The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

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Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing i... by Jon Ronson

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

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At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

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Success is always less funny than failure. by Jon Ronson

Success is always less funny than failure.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

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When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

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