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• Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

  Andrea Gibson

  People

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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• Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

  Liane Moriarty

  Aggravation, Hovering, Form

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Littles, Way, Sneak

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• I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.

  Eddie Pepitone

  Fun, People, Magic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

  David Sheff

  Order, Chaos, Chapters

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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• To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Temporary Insanity

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

  Anne Fortier

  Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

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• People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I'd achieved the first....) Anyway, if there's a lesson to be learned, it's this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Years, Lessons To Be Learned

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.179, Macmillan

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• A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Marriage, Independent, Two

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.583, Open Road Media

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• Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

  Darynda Jones

  Genius, Bumper Sticker, Limitation

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• Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

  Lisi Harrison

  Dream, Insane, Lines

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Lakes, Cities

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• If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Temporary Insanity, People, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Reality, Fiction

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• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Boredom

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Crazy, People, Available

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• You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?" "No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?" "Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Thinking, Names

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.54, Penguin

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• The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

  Randy Pausch

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

  Jon Ronson

  Impact, What If, Way

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

  Guillermo del Toro

  Insane, Doe, Add

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Acting, Matter, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Jan 21, 2015

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• Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

  Richard Kadrey

  Able, Contradiction, Embrace

  Richard Kadrey (2015). “Butcher Bird”, p.240, Booklassic

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