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"If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going."
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"I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should."
"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."
"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."
"Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try."
"To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are."
"But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."
"Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire."
"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."
"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."
"I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows."
"I have ridden out all the storms, said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins."
"In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."
"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"
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