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• I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moon, Men, Lunatic Asylums

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• As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, People, Why Not

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• A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Land, Done

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 3 (1916)

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• The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Fire, Agents

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Long, Letters

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• I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

  Margaret Atwood

  Suffering, Machines, Lunatic Asylums

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.51, Anchor

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• Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

  Beverley Nichols

  Laughter, Finding Yourself, Bursting

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press

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• Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

  Jean Cocteau

  Life, Art, Children

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• I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

  Werner Herzog

  Lunatic Asylums, Asylums, Should

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  John Lennon

  Acceptance, Hands, Being Different

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• A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

  George Orwell

  Flames, People, Desire

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Voice, Doorways

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

  Colin Greenwood

  Gun, Use, Half

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• I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Training, Needs

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, January 25, 2010.

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• You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Atheist, Believe, Years

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• Fame attracts lunatics.

  Elton John

  Fame

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Opposites

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

  Jim Butcher

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

  Bhagat Singh

  Jail, Molecules, Ashes

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Writing, Men

  Letter to his son Christopher Tolkien on August 09, 1945. "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien", 1981.

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