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"You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage."
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"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"

"Open up your heart enables expansion of the dimensions of the conscious states."

"It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness."

"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."

"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."

"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."

"The Red Cross irritated Ugwu, the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour."

"Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."

"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."

"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."

"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto."
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