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"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."

"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."

"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."

"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."

"We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world."

"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."


"When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time."


"We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession."
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