"Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough."
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"Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can."
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"Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that."
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"She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad."
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"I've been watching Mad Men since day one."
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"He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god."
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"Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith."
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"Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses."
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"If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity."
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"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."
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"I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement."
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"Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."
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"What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres."
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"I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity."
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"Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place."
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"Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself."
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"It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him."
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"A mad man sees what he sees."
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"My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me."
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"A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane."
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