"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them."

Freedom, Courage, Fear, Control

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"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them."

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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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"The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth."

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"It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do."

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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

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"Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most."

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"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."

Humor

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Trust

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."

Emotion

"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."

Change

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

Survival

"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal."

Ethics

"HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me."

Philosophy

"Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?"

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"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."

Culture

"If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what do we have to fear? What are we worried about? I think the knowledge of death is freeing. That pressure we feel, the weight of life and its impending conclusion, is imaginary. And the fact that we're all in this together is unifying: there's solidarity in mortality."

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