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“The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.”
“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
“And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.”
“It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.”
“It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.”
“He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand and he started reading it, paying particular attention to the headlines wh...”
“Every town has a psychopath or two. Not just the everyday crazy person, either. Not like Crazy Larry, the paint huffing weirdo peddling around town on a child-sized Huffy ranting about the end of t...”
“Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.”
“Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.”
“Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.”
“I took a few dragging steps toward the locker-room door. 'You're doing something to me that I wouldn't do to a dog,' I mumbled. 'What you're doing to me is worse than if you were to kill me. You're...”
“Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!”
“Hasnt everyone taken a nervous breakdown at some point? Maybe I suffered a nervous breakthrough. I dont know what tothink. It echoes inside your skull.”
“Insanity is intuition.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
“Insanity is catching.”
“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...”
