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"There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere-it doesn't all get used up at once. "I may still be hung over, sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."
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"What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
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"Unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things."
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"Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it."
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"Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life."
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
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"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
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"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."
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"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
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"Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important."
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"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."
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"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."
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"Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life."
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"Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets."
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"I had a dog once. I thought so much of him that when he died I couldn't bear the thought of getting another in his place. He was a FRIEND-you understand, Mistress Blythe? Matey's only a pal. I'm fond of Matey-all the fonder on account of the spice of devilment that's in him-like there is in all cats. But I LOVED my dog. I always had a sneaking sympathy for Alexander Elliott about HIS dog. There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon."
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"Loving connections are intimately associated with belief. The more connected we are, the more we believe in each other."
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"I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way."
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"A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time."
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"Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows."
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"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation."
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"Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another."
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"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
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"Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on."
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"I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?"
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"I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened."
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"Your bread assumes the shape of the pan in which you bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and get your desired shape of the bread!"
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"It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!"
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"When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet."
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"It's only "single steps" that make a journey of 1000 miles. It means the combined effect of many steps is the equivalence of a great journey. Go, take many little steps."
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"Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future."
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"Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?"
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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"In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals."
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"Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability."
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"The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. "The Hammer stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart."
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"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
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