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"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."
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"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
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"Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
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"Joblessness releases you from the world system."
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
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"No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking 'someone will take away my things!' Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?"
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"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
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"Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone."
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"I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve."
Satire
"My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it."
Survival
"I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation."
Nostalgia
"Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!"
Art
"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."
Creativity
"I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking."
Isolation
"Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared."
Motivation
"The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak."
Nature
"I could never hate you, even if I wanted to."
Forgiveness
"I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me."
Life
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