"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

Insanity, Creativity, Boldness, Greatness

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"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

Barry Mann, American Musician

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"The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments."

Lois Greiman, American Author

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"I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

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"We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Insanity, Madness, Insult, Body, Horror

"You're insane."It'll work."Which does not alter the fact that you are insane."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

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"Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: 'Soon all the humans will be dead,' she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. 'And then Opal will be loved.'And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead."

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

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"You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity."

Peter Criss, American Musician

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"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."

Truth

"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."

Music

"It's funny how people think that they have 'a right to life'. Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You don't have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Let's take it back to the jungle. Where the fuck are your rights there? No layers in the jungle. Civilization has allowed the weak to survive. You can sit back and be an overweight, apathetic piece of shit, smoke your dope and still survive because you have a right to life."

Society

"'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece."

Music

"At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is signed and brokenTheir true colors stinkThese daysI find it hard to get along with themI want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and seeI do the same to the ones I likeThe ones I don't care about I smile at real nice."

Observation

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

Loss

"In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks."

Knowledge

"This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky."

People

"We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost."

Nature

"The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture."

Trauma