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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."
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"She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft."
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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"Madness breeds madness."
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"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."
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"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."
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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
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"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
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"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."
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"Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason."
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"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
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"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
People
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
People
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
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"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
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"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
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"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."
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"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
Fiction
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