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"Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars-to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording-all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night..."
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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
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"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."
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"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
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"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
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"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
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"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were."
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"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."
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"Employment is the greatest dream killer."
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"None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform."
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"To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
Philosophy
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
Adventure
"I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in."
Creativity
"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
Identity
"I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."
Emotion
"Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
Relationship
"I have a visual imagination."
Creativity
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."
Love
"All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward."
Education
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