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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living."

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Bryan Fuller Writer, Producer
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"Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence."

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!"

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Veronica Roth Author
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"You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution."

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Tracy Pollan Actress
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"I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science."

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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
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"There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull."

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