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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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Personal Development
"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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Personal Development
"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Life
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
Legal
"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Life
"But you can't put fight into a man's guts if hehasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind."
Courage
"The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
Philosophy
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