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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain."
Creativity

"December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come."
Reflection

"As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation."
Imagination

"Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back."
Ambition

"It's ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no."
Self

"Live humbly and for the moment."
Life

"There's no such thing as 'not enough time' out here in the woods. I don't even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than 'morning, afternoon, evening and night'."
Solitude

"The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful."
Society

"It's not always best to know what's going on beneath the surface."
Insight

"I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards."
Freedom
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