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"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."
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"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
"Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult."
"Joblessness releases you from the world system."
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking 'someone will take away my things!' Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?"
"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"
"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
"Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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