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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."
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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."
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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
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"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
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"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
Morality
"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
Power
"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."
Religion
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
Politics
"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."
Politics
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
Religion
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Corruption
"The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different."
Reality
"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
Culture
"Good novel are written by people who are not frightened."
Literature
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