Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Malcolm Bradbury
Some Similar Quotes
  1. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - Unknown

  3. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare

  4. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad! " he annouced. - Douglas Adams

  5. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Dale Wasserman

More Quotes By Malcolm Bradbury
  1. Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?'' It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

  2. Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

  3. Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

  4. With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he...

  5. Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

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