"In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too"

--

Source : 1959 Henderson The Rain King, ch.3.

Saul Bellow

#Crazy Quotes #Mad Quotes #Age Quotes

“Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random numberâ€“ there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.”
“I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."”
“On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.”
“Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.”
“I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.”
“It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.
“Which weakness shall I tell her? â€œI walk funny,â€ I say, and sheâ€™s satisfied with that. (inside joke)”
“If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!”

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