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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."

"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
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"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."


"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."


"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."


"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."


"I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on."


"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."


"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."


"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone."


"My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed."


"Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them."
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