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Neil Gaiman
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
Neil Gaiman

Leo Strauss
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be skeptics, which expresses beautifully what Plato conveys through his dialogues.”
Leo Strauss, On Plato's Symposium

Michael  Greenberg
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.”
Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

William Shakespeare
“too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

Michael  Greenberg
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”
Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

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