"I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong."
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"That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me."
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"In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me."
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"I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all."
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"I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation."
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"When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory."
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"I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even."
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"I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly."
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"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
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"It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!"
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"An undevout astronomer is mad."
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"Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?"
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"Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?"
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"Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it."
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"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?"
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"I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million."
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"I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore."
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"Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers."
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"The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later."
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"He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced."
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