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• Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

  Maureen Stapleton

  Home, Odds, Theatre

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• in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Fear, Night, People

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

  Josh Lieb

  Crazy, Stupidity, Make Sense

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.56, Penguin

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• You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

  Susan Moody

  Perception, Insane, Sincerity

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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• There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

  Lisa Lopes

  Crazy, Genius, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Trying, Abnormal

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• In loquaciousness lay insanity.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lays

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “Alien: The Official Movie Novelization”, p.8, Titan Books

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• So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

  Neal Shusterman

  Needed, Quinn, Controlled

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Nineteen, Prevailing

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.165, Arcturus Publishing

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• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

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• Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

  Ian Frazier

  Nonsense

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• We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Believe, Iran

  "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.

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• Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Brain, Forget

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• Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Children, Crazy, Sleep

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.182, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mean, Talking, Nuts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.75, Vintage

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Lust, Madness

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

  Molly Haskell

  Mind, World, Body

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.84, iUniverse

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• A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Destiny, Thinking, Madness

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

  Richard Armitage

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• Insanity is coasting through life.

  Morgan Freeman

  "Wanted: for crimes against cinema" by Anna Pickard, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Writing, Despair

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Pain, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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• At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Practice, People, Atheism

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• Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

  Dorothea Dix

  Humanity, Fever, Cold

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