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John Fowles

"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."

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"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."

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Amber Hurdle

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

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Amber Hurdle

"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

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Amber Hurdle

"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."

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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
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"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."
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"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
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"Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care."
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"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."
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"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."
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"Sometimes to return is a vulgarity."
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