"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."

Identity, Loss, Change, Self

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"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."

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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

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"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

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"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

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"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."

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"What is YOUR personal brand? How are you packaging your unique talents, style, personality and/or products to represent who you are, what you do, and how you show yourself to the world?"

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"Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past."

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"You are special creation."

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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

Being

"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

Oppression

"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."

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"Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."

Morality

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."

Morality

"Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self."

Freedom

"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."

Liberty

"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."

Life

"When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea."

Health

"It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"

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