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"An optimist is a guy that has never had much 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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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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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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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
Work
"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
Age
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Writing
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
Age
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
Nation
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
People
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Reading
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
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