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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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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."
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Personal Development
"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."
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"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."
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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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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."
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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Kindness
"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."
Success
"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"
Life
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
Nature
"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
Future
"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
Revolution
"Time is the longest distance between two places."
Time
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Success
"To be free is to have achieved your life."
Life
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
Betrayal
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