"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."

Life, Escape, Freedom, Reflection, Constraint

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"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"I am born to win."

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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

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"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

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"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."

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"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

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