Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
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—Emily Dickinson, 1875
Sanity is a cozy lie.
—Susan Sontag, 1961
Perhaps if you know that you are insane then you are not insane.
—Philip K. Dick, 1962
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
—Joe Ancis
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Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
—R. D. Laing, 1972
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
—Akira Kurosawa, 1985
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
—William S. Burroughs, 1970
I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
—Pat Conroy, 2010
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1848
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
—Charles Bukowski, 1987
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This is apparently a twist of an English proverb: “A little nonsense now and then/Is relished by
the wisest men”.
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As quoted, without a date, in several generally reliable collections, starting not later than 1990,
i.e. during the author’s lifetime.
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