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"Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."
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"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."
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"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."
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"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."
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"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."
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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
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"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."
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"A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
Literature
"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
Relationship
"Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals."
Love
"Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture."
Self
"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully."
Love
"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Poetry
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"Passion out of passion's obstacles."
Emotion
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
Growth
"The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich."
Time
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