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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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Personal Development
"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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Personal Development
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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Personal Development
"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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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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Personal Development
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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Personal Development
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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Personal Development
"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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Personal Development
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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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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"Good writing like good sex requires discipline."
Writing
"If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things."
Philosophy
"Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need."
Philosophy
"When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica."
Exploration
"Nothing is better than sex and nothing is exactly like it."
Life
"I gaze out of the window at the lanes of red taillights streaming towards the hills, the city laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, the view confirming that I was much more alone than I thought, and all those red lights inspired nothing more than a sense that I, too, should be fleeing somewhere."
Isolation
"Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic."
Beauty
"Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled."
Literature
"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."
Exploration
"Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others."
Psychology
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