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"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
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"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that."
"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
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