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Alan Partridge: Nomad

by Alan Partridge

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Dec 31, 2019 05:43PM

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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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‘If I can play,’ says Jasper, ‘it’s because I practised in lieu of living. It’s not a method I recommend.’

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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die … and accepts his sentence undismayed.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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