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Anthony Burgess

"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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Amber Hurdle

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

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"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
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"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."
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"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."
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"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."
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"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."
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"The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it."
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"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
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"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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