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• Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

  Rupert Everett

  Prerequisites

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• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  Carol O'Connell

  Song, Art, Children

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• A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Intense, Intense Love

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• The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Angel, Demon, Rage

  A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.103, A. A. Attanasio

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• You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

  Marion Cotillard

  Good Things, Deals

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

  Alex Hirsch

  Mom, Fall, Glasses

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• Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

  Albert Camus

  Kissing, Fire, Trying

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• If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

  Thomas Nagel

  Giving, World, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spring, Mean, Psychosis

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• Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

  Sam Smith

  Legacy, Wonder, Rich

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• There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

  Pras Michel

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Plot, Horror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Jesus, Media

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• Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

  James Scott Bell

  Worry, Victory, Way

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• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Crazy, People

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• There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

  Anais Nin

  Vision

  "La casa dell'incesto".

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• I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Book, Night

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• Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

  Alan Moore

  Doors, Dc Comics, Forever

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

  Frieda Lawrence

  War, Men, Faults

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Soulmate, Stars

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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