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"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
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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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"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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"The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth."
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"Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot."
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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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"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
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