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“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
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“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
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“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
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