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Insanity Quotes by Tom Robbins
- There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable…
- There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
- Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none…
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