#lunatic

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#lunatic #publishing #writers

By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!' 'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.' Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect. ↗

— J. Storer Clouston

#humor #lunatic #nunnery #respect

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#arrested #asylum #away #come #everyone

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anything #asylum #casual #does #lunatic

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#asylum #complexion #due #jerusalem #lunatic

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it? ↗

— Joe Pesci

#just #lunatic #macaroni #mushroom #some

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fringe #lunatic #movement #reform

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad. ↗

— Robert McKee

#insanity #lunatics #thinking #communication