"Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone."
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"If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness."
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"That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity."
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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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"Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly."
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --"
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"Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people."
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"The step between genius and insanity is very short."
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"To lie, of course, is to engender insanity."
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"There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity."
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"The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity."
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"The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's."
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"The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him."
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"There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential."
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"Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential."
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"What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?"
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"Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity."
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"Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity."
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"Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
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"When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free."
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