“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”

Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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