“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”
Source: Running with Scissors
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“Crazies?”
Fritz Leiber book Our Lady of Darkness
“All of us.”
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“We're gonna make it all the way to the light,
but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight”
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“Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy- that's just the way I am.”
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Lunatic. 1
पागल (The Lunatic)
“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist
As quoted in Colin Wilson New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 155-56.
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Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 42, note 34