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"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
Money
"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."
Old
"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
Freedom
"How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible."
Woman
"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
Father
"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."
Age
"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."
Family
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
Mother
"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
Accident
"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
Name
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