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"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
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"The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!"
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"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
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Personal Development
"Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction."
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Personal Development
"You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep."
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"You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read."
Literature
"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."
Reflection
"For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own."
Inspirational
"Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared."
Philosophy
"I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it."
Love
"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
People
"I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of."
Books
"One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence."
Aspiration
"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."
Reading
"Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve."
Violence
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