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In du Maurier’s world, the usual footholds by which sanity is maintained are always in danger of being kicked away by circumstance.

When asked what he felt about his captors, he said: "It will take two generations to bring some sanity in them and they need a sane leadership."

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“When we first met, I thought she was so charming, so beautiful, so magical, that I questioned my sanity. I thought: Was it possible to fall in love so quickly?” he wrote.

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“I’m confident that, as governor, I can actually overturn that law and bring some sanity back to this whole situation.”

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I flirted briefly with making yogurt in my rice cooker before deciding to preserve a shred of sanity, only to immediately sacrifice it again by adding biscuits and sausage gravy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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