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David Guterson

"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

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Amber Hurdle

"Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ['If he doesn't play ball ']"

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Amber Hurdle

"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

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Amber Hurdle

"Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free."

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Amber Hurdle

"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life."

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Amber Hurdle

"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self's (Soul's) abode, it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti)."

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Amber Hurdle

"Each person carries within their core the birthright of creative freedom, which, when organized and orchestrated, is the most awesome force on earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

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