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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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Personal Development
"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."
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Personal Development
"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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Personal Development
"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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Personal Development
"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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Personal Development
"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
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Personal Development
"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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Personal Development
"I think escapism is really important."
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Personal Development
"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."
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Personal Development
"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
Morality
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
Talent
"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
Psychology
"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
Character
"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
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Love
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