William Golding Quotes
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet -
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik -
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan -
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson -
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson -
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi -
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
E. M. Forster
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Douglas Jerrold -
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost -
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
Richard Scott Bakker -
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
Maurice Blanchot -
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign
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Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.
Sara Blakely -
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates -
I admire people who just speak the truth.
Woody Harrelson -
We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
Joseph Cook -
Worse than madness. Sanity.
William Golding