George Santayana Quotes
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
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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.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
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I am not a morning person. Never have been - never want to be. As a matter of fact, I am vaguely distrustful of people who bound out of bed early like demented puppies. It's barbaric to wake up before 9:00 a.m.
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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.
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I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
