A Quote by Lin Yutang
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.
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Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
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