"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

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"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."

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"But suppose your dA mon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dA mon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up."

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"I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner."

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"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

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"Be as good as you would want to follow yourself."

"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."

"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."

"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."

"Metias is gone again. He is always gone."

"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."

"I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner."

"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

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"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

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