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“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
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“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]”
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“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”
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“I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.”
Source : "Witt's Beginning: Alicia Witt Struts Her Stuff in the New Comedy 'Playing Mona Lisa'" by Christopher Null, filmsite.org, October 17, 2000.
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“I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.”
Source : " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001. 
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“I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.”
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“Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.”
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“A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.”
