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Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
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Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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March 2, 1942
(age 82)
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