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"The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world."
Control
"Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview."
Art
"I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business."
Business
"People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player."
Funny
"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
Writer
"The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that."
Music
"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
Guitar
"A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate."
Objectives
"I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had."
Fun
"I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do."
Time
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