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Quotes by Writer
"When you stop growing you start dying."
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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
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"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
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"Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair."
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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
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"I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry."
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"It's when you smell the breeze, taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive."
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"Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same."
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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."
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"Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had."
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"We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right."
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
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"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
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"Equip yourself for your own needs."
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"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
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"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
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"I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it's a kind of power that snares people and reels them in."
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"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."
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"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."
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"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
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"The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
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"Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It was such a novelty that he feared people would laugh at him in church; he was greatly relieved, and a little proud, to find that they did not. He also worried, not unreasonably, that the hair of wigs might come from plague victims. Perhaps nothing says more about the power of fashion than that Pepys continued wearing wigs even while wondering if they might kill him."
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