“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes
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“In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.”
Page 48.
The Noonday Devil (1987)
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