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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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In a mad world, only the mad are sane. – Akiro Kurosawa

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You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson

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Insanity is the state of being unable, any longer, to be just a little bit delusional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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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