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Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

— Nora Ephron Heartburn (1983)

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Source: Nora Ephron, Heartburn (1983), as reported in What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present (1989), p. 320.
Work: Heartburn, 1983
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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