
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
“There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.”
"Old midwestern saying" created by Jones for his story, as stated in James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master (1998) by Steven R. Carter
The Thin Red Line (1962)
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
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