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Thomm Quackenbush

"We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority."

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"We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority."

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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."

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

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"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."

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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

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"Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it..."

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"He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand."

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"Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness."

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"There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood."

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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

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"I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time."

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"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."
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"Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins."
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