"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
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"How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)"
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"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death."
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"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
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"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment."
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"The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind."
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"I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night."
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"'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards."
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"There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself."
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"Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!"
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"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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"Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he."
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"I will be brief. Your noble son is mad."
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"The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather."
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"Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person."
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"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
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"Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy."
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"My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad."
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"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
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