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"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
Future
"That's what my life is, writing songs."
Life
"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."
Reading
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
Reason
"People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did."
Music
"I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need."
Love
"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
Feelings
"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
Life
"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."
Computer
"If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."
People
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