“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”
— David Markson, book Wittgenstein's Mistress
Source: Wittgenstein's Mistress
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