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  1. Bret Easton Ellis _ Imperial Bedrooms

    How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info," she says. "I'll think about it." "Rain," I say. "That's not your real name." "Does it matter?" "Well, it makes me wonder what else isn't real." "That's because you're a writer," she says. "That's because you make things up for a living." "And?" "And"-- she shrugs--"I've noticed that writers tend to worry about things like that.
    book-quotewritingtruthreality

  2. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the I have to worry about the truth that can be And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day...
    book-quotetruthpastpregnancy

  3. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.
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  4. Herman Melville _ Bartleby the Scrivener

    At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.
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  5. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
    book-quotemadnesssanitymodernity

  6. Douglas Adams _ The Ultimate Hitchhiker's

    Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
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  7. Jack London _ The Star Rover

    To be able to forget means sanity.
    book-quotesanityforgetting

  8. Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All

    Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that's only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we're all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.
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  9. Rebecca Goldstein _ Incompleteness: The Proof and

    No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Plan B: Further Thoughts on

    One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Plan B: Further Thoughts on

    ... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. {pp. 65-66}"
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  12. kelley armstrong _ The Summoning

    If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
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