The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Related The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk... MAXINE HONG KINGSTON There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. SALVADOR DALI There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. SALVADOR DALí There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. SALVADOR DALí We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE In a mad world, only the mad are sane. AKIRA KUROSAWA In a mad world, only the mad are sane. AKIRO KUROSAWA In a mad world only the mad are sane. AKIRA KUROSAWA The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to ta... BOB SAGET Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi... NORA EPHRON People talk to pets and babies to stop themselves going mad. JAMES SMYTHE If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off BURMESE PROVERB The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction. AHMED MOSTAFA I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves... ALICE WALKER Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God PEOPLE OF CHRIST The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they'... SCARLETT POMERS The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. C.S. LEWIS With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what... CARA BUONO I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla... SABAA TAHIR Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, a... CAM NEWTON It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. G. B. BURGIN I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov... SHIRLEY JACKSON The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,... JACK KEROUAC I've been to so many funerals and watched people cry and act a fool over someone they used to talk d... BETTYE BULLOCK I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perf... DON JOHNSON He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. THOMAS M DISCH All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. HERMAN MELVILLE I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected... JULIA SWEENEY The responses have been positive. When people talk about Janet, they talk about her with reverence. HOLLY PETTITT The employees and Duke University have only heard one side of the story. These people have good jobs... DICK LONG The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner. ANTHONY STORR Aren't we at the stage these days when it just doesn't ... matter? It's a story of love and it's a s... HEATH LEDGER Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. HARVEY PENICK Over eight years there was only a 2 percent difference between heart disease among siblings with and... HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZ Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless... EDWARD DAHLBERG The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices. HANIF KUREISHI The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. SALVADOR DALI The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad SALVADOR DALí The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad SALVADOR DALí If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, th... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Fundraising can make normally sane people pretty crazy. They both have political goals for which the... DAN SCHNUR People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try th... PABLO SANDOVAL There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. SALVADOR DALI There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all goin... BOB DYLAN All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going... BOB DYLAN The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. SALVADOR DALI People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of th... COREY TAYLOR When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, an... TONY MCCOLLUM ...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each oth... JOJO MOYES Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane un... SHERRILYN KENYON It's really competitive, and sometimes people will get mad when they found out you won. LORRAINE TAMSKY The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children an... GEORGIA PEREZ Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they a... MATT HAIG I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with peop... ISABEL ALLENDE Some people have gotten mad that we're closing, real mad. But most are just sorry that we're leaving... LINDA BOBBITT The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to talk to someone to see how they fee... DELMA PRYCE They only want to talk to wealthy people. BOB TUKE Sit down and talk things over. You have to be compatible. But you're two people, so you're going to ... ELLEN ROBERTS Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they ... PROVERB Most people have to talk so they won't hear. MAY SARTON When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad. JENNIFER PAYNTER Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane... GRAHAM SWIFT Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what ... TERRY PRATCHETT Talk to people about themselves, talk to people about themselcs and they will listen for hours BENJAMIN DISRAELI People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have... GAYLE FORMAN There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One thing I've found that is very important is that they now have broadband they can talk to their f... DOMINIC LEE Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they... CARLOS SANTANA Amateur radio interests me for a variety of reasons. There's the technical aspect of it ... but you ... JOHN JOHNSON Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know i... BILL MURRAY i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and shambled after as I've been doing all my... JACK KEROUAC We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know th... CAPTAIN SENSIBLE The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sa... EMMA GOLDMAN But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. CHARLES BARKLEY I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that comm... GREG BOYLE The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,... JACK KEROUAC To blame this on lone mad people is dangerous, because these mad people could explode the whole coun... BORUKH GORIN I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ... DOROTHY DAY I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ... DOROTHY DAY We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will... LOUIS THEROUX People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to t... LEONARDO DA VINCI The idea is that the buyers have names and numbers of people who are resources to them. If they have... CATHY ALWINE If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of ce... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Most people have to talk so they won't hear. MAY SARTON The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that re... INGRID SEWARD All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never... M. C. GAINEY I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good... EMILY BLUNT We have been able to watch a variety of terrain and undertake review of a whole variety of imagery a... TOMMY FRANKS Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and ... GEORGE ELIOT I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. PLATO When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I t... KIRK DOUGLAS I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha... JODI LYNN ANDERSON The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious p... JEFFERSON BETHKE
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