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"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
Actor
"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."
Hell
"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
Business
"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
Car
"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."
Hope
"Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth."
Choice
"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
Experience
"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."
Thought
"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
Order
"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
Years
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