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"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
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"Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion-often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation-that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter."

"Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity."

"She hated everything her parents loved."

"Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album."

"Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners."

"I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell."

"Rebellion is the very essence of meditation. Meditation means destroying the mind totally."
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"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."


"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."
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