Colin Wilson book The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988), p. 16
"Florence Green is 81".
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
Colin Wilson book The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988), p. 16
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist
Robyn Dawes (1936–2010) American psychologist
Hence, people believed that genius and lunacy were intimately connected. Perhaps, nearly all of us “drive ourselves a little nuts” by virtue of creating stories that lead us to the illusion that we understand history, other people, causality, and life—when we don’t.
Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 7, “Good Stories” (p. 125)
Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian
Interview for the People Magazine, 1990
“Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146, st. 7. <br class="br">1840s
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Variant: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Source: Mostly Harmless