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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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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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Personal Development
"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."
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"Escapers were the cream of the crop."
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Personal Development
"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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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
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"People go to the movies instead of moving."
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"If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
Progress
"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
Virtue
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."
Youth
"Morality is not respectability."
Morality
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
Marriage
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
Education
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
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