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It is quite hard at times to distinguish a genius from a lunatic.

—Dorothy Thompson

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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

—John Lennon

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Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? . . . What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

—Susanna Kaysen

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[Theodore] Dreiser wrote this magnificent novel [Sister Carrie]. . . .  But the publisher . . . didn't like it, they were afraid of it. So they buried it. And naturally it did nothing; I think it sold four copies. . . . Dreiser rented a furnished room in Brooklyn. He put a chair in the middle of this room and sat in it. The chair didn't seem to be in the right position so he turned it a few degrees, and he sat in it again. Still it was not right. He kept turning the chair around and around, trying to align it to what — trying to correct his own relation to the universe? He never could do it, so he kept going around in circles and circles. He did that for quite a while, and ended up in a sanatorium.

—E.L. Doctorow

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One has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us.

—Beverly Pepper

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Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called "mad" and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called "writers" and they do pretty much the same thing.

—Meg Chittenden

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Not being a priority is a pretty good reason to end things.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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Miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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While being married is about becoming the wife you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the woman you were born to be.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Apologies could come too late.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

—Mickey Mouse

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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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When you doubt, abstain.

—Ambrose Bierce

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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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