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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
Writing

"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."
Self

"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."
Social

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
Responsibility

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
Truth

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
Fear

"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."
Relationship

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
Technology

"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."
Philosophy

"In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply."
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"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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"To shut your eyes is to travel."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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