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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. – William Shakespeare

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is better to be a little mad than commonplace. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. – Aristotle

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