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"Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script."
"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
"In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too"
"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
"Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live."
"Only the half-mad are wholly alive."
"Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad."
"I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it."
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."
"Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad."
"When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree."
"Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other."
"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher."
"Oppression makes a wise man mad."
"Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that."
"I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard."
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
"I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be."
"Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
"The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it."
