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"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that."
"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
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"You can only see God when you notice people."
"I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit."
"When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate."
"You are my universe! I am longing to belong!"
"This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who was in my house?" I tried to think of what i might gain by denying it and drew a blank "yes" do you have a name?"do you?"he gave a short laugh that was completely without humor but not unpleasent. "I think i might like you. Im Beck."
"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth."
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
"Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!"
"We love those to whom we can tell our story."
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