"The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner."

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Source : Anthony Storr (1997). “Feet Of Clay”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

Anthony Storr

#Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes #Sane Quotes

“To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".”
“I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.”
“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”
“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.”
“Boxing is not for killing each other.”
“Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.”
“He moves like a dancer.”
“When I first made the comeback it was more about getting fit and hopefully inspiring others to lead a better life... for me to achieve what I have achieved over the last two years has been a dream come true.”

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