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“Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as...”
“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
“The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.”
“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”
“One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.”
“When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
“Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
“Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.”
“Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”
“Mad bad and dangerous to know.”
“There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!”
“Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!”
