Quote by Cynthia Ozick
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logi

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. – Edward Dahlberg

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw

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