Quote by James Agee
As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remember

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

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When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint…were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. – James Agee

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Actors, Acting
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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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All of us are crazy in one way or another. – Yiddish Proverb

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Insanity

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. – Rudyard Kipling

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Insanity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

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Insanity

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. – Waylon Jennings

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Insanity

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Art for arts sake, money for Gods sake. – Simon Raven

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think thats true of everyone, dont you? – Tennessee Williams

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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. – Source Unknown

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