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I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.... Here's looking at you, kid.
(Howard Koch (1901-1995), U.S. screenwriter, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Michael Curtiz. Rick (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca, saying good-bye to Ilsa, his former lover, who wants to stay (1943).)
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. Quoted in New York Post (January 24, 1957).
said of Pound's detention in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC.)
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I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
(Cher (20th century), U.S. entertainer and actoress. As quoted in The Mother Book, by Liz Smith (1978).)
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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
(John Lahr (b. 1941), U.S. literary and drama critic. Quoted in Guardian (London, August 2, 1989).)
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It's this crazy weather we've been having:
Falling forward one minute, lying down the next
Among the loose grasses and soft, white, nameless flowers.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Crazy Weather.")
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we are the circle of the crazy ladies
who sit in the lounge of the mental house
and smile at the smiling woman
who passes us each a bell,
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. Ringing the Bells (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete Poems [Anne Sexton]. (1981) Houghton Mifflin.)
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I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
(Jill Robinson (b. 1936), U.S. novelist. As quoted in American Dreams, part 1, by Studs Terkel (1980).
The daughter of movie producer Dore Schary, Robinson had grown up rich in Hollywood; her notions of the world were shaped by the movies in which she was immersed.)
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I started off rapping for people just like myself, people who were in awe of wealth and flash. It was a conversation between me and them. But now most of those who buy my records are listening in on others' conversation. They are the aural equivalent of voyeurs, thrilled at this crazy world that has nothing to do with their experience.
(Ice-T [Tracy Marrow], U.S. rap musician. Observer (London, Oct. 27, 1991).)
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