"No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe."
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"Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?"
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"I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad."
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"A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire."
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"In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic."
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"Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators."
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"The world went mad and used us as an excuse."
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"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause"
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"I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?"
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"The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae."
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"The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen."
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"Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable."
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"Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with."
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"she’s mad, but she’s magic."
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"I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back."
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"Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
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"I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you."
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"Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth."
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"I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks."
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"This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery."
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