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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook D," aph. 97, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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It's certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. A Prayer for My Daughter (l. 30-32). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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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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Wind whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pierstakes groan;
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer. On the Beach at Fontana (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.)
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Maybe it's our sky that makes us crazy.
(Kathleen Norris (b. 1947), U.S. poet and farmer. Dakota, ch. 32 (1993).
Norris lived and farmed in rural Lemmon, South Dakota.)
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by night only crazy things
like the full moon and the whippoorwill
and us, are busy.
(Charles Olson (1910-1970), U.S. poet. Variations Done for Gerald Van de Wiele (l. 49-51). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
(Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. The Life of Galileo, sc. 6, trans. by Howard Brenton (1980).)
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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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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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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 625, Knopf (1949).)
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