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"Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression and pre-adolescent anxiety--garbage that should have been dumped long ago.  Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo.  Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself.  Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.  It's always preferable to be in trouble in others.  In fact, it may be essential."  Tom Robbins