"I don't need to feel 100% safe, but I have to feel like there's room for me to go a little bit insane if I'm going to have good ideas. Because a good idea is a new idea and if you start going around like, "I have this new idea!" most people are gonna be like, "I've never heard that before, that sounds fishy.""

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#People Quotes #Insane Quotes #Fishy Quotes

“Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.”
“This is something that Alternative for Germany, which is the party that's coming up from behind and is expected to actually beat [Angela] Merkel's party today, they're exploiting that fear in people who don't really have a whole lot of experience with integration.”
“We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”
“Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.”
“A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.”
“Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.”
“Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.”
“There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.”

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