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    Thanks...Glad you enjoy...

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    "Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future" -Unknown

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    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ~Terry Pratchett
    Looks like a summation of Siddhartha.

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    “I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

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    ^Certainly does.. a wise writer above.

    "You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" `George Bernard Shaw

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    “I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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    “It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus

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    “I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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    “And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drives me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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    “I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”
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    “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

    "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

    "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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    “Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.”

    ― Xaviera Hollander

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    “Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cnut-struck,' the eighteenth-century equivalent of saying that someone was thinking with his dick, survive into the Victorian age.”
    ― Hanne Blank, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

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    “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
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    “I will go directly to her home, ring the bell, and walk in. Here I am, take me-or stab me to death. Stab the heart, stab the brains, stab the lungs, the kidneys, the viscera, the eyes, the ears. If only one organ be left alive you are doomed-doomed to be mine, forever, in this world and the next and all the worlds to come. I'm a desperado of love, a scalper, a slayer. I'm insatiable. I eat hair, dirty wax, dry blood clots, anything and everything you call yours. Show me your father, with his kites, his race horses, his free passes for the opera: I will eat them all, swallow them alive. Where is the chair you sit in, where is your favorite comb, your toothbrush, your nail file? Trot them out that I may devour them at one gulp. You have a sister more beautiful than yourself, you say. Show her to me-I want to lick the flesh from her bones.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by BaitongBoy View Post
    The Cremation of Sam McGee
    By Robert W. Service 1874–1958


    There are strange things done in the midnight sun
    By the men who moil for gold;
    The Arctic trails have their secret tales
    That would make your blood run cold;
    The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
    But the queerest they ever did see
    Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
    I cremated Sam McGee.
    one of my favourites...excellent stuff.

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    ^Cheers...

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    The Shooting of Dan McGraw

    by Robert W. Service




    A bunch of the boys were whooping it up
    In the Malamute saloon;
    The kid that handles the music-box
    Was hitting a jag-time tune;
    Back of the bar, in a solo game,
    Sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
    And watching his luck was his light-o'-love,
    The lady that's known as Lou.

    When out of the night, which was fifty below,
    And into the din and the glare,
    There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks,
    Dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
    He looked like a man with a foot in the grave
    And scarcely the strength of a louse,
    Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar,
    And he called for drinks for the house.
    There was none could place the stranger's face,
    Though we searched ourselves for a clue;
    But we drank his health, and the last to drink
    Was Dangerous Dan McGrew.

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    “It is easy to go down into Hell;
    Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
    But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air –
    There’s the rub, the task.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid

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    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic

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    “Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone

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    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi

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    “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
    You must travel it by yourself.
    It is not far. It is within reach.
    Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
    Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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    ^Wonderful!

    “Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau

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    ^Yes...Thinking about Walden Pond today...

    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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