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"After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us."
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"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."
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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."
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"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."
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"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."
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"Twirling round 'n round -faster and faster she dreams this circular motionwill take her home, high in the heavens where hurt is onlyan earthly world."
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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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"If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do."
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"If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!"
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"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
Time

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
Man

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
Life

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
Truth

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Religion

"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."
Love
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