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“Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to…

— Richard Russo

“The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea…

— Mary Doria Russell

“You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order…

— Barack Obama

“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and…

— Kevin Wilson

“I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.”

— James Lee Burke

“He assumed that there must be a connection between all that had happened yesterday and all that surrounded him now. At last, in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot convince a…

— Upton Sinclair

“He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he felt that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“Because he said it as if he was the first human being who'd ever noticed. Maybe that's why so many people trusted him, because…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz