"Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane."
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"It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side."
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"It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out."
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"Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane."
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"Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane."
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"Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it."
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"We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession."
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"Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes."
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"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"
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"I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane."
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"I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess."
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"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."
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"When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was."
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"This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more."
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"What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?"
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"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles"
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"Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane."
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"That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane"
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"It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . ."
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"Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely."
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