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"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."
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"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."
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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
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"I came to this city to escape."
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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change
"I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot."
Society
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
Literature
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Politics
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Existence
"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
Communication
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