Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
In the Cart or A Journey by Cart or The Schoolmistress (1897)
“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
Ibid.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
“They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: Challenger Deep
“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
Lucy Liu (1968) American actress and model
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