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    “A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
    ― Dean Young, Skid
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    “Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”
    ― Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
    tags: poetry
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    “You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.”
    ― Dean Young
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    “Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.”
    ― Dean Young, Fall Higher
    tags: birds, cages, fall-higher, free, life
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  • #5
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    William Shakespeare
    “Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: polonius-from-hamlet
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  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “We're all mad here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
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    Charles Bukowski
    “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: fire, love, magic, women
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    Akira Kurosawa
    “In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
    ― Akira Kurosawa
    tags: insanity, madness, sanity
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  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
    ― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,
    Strike the bell and bide the danger,
    Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
    What would have followed if you had.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science
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  • #28
    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    ― Isaac Newton
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  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: madness, mental-illness, poor, poverty, rich
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: dimension, madness, reality, soul, understand-me
    694 likes



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