Quote by John Updike
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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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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

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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. – Henry Ward Beecher

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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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For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron

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Im an amateur science enthusiast. Im not even a professional enthusiast. I dont know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. – Dave Eggers

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If a trainstation is where the train stops, whats a workstation…? – Anon.

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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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