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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
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"How many things can I do without?"
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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"The less you need, the more you live."
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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