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“I can find no cause or creed to stimulate me. Why? Is this my fault? I’m not the dedicated type to give myself up to helping others. I believe in God, but not that of the church. I believe in a more realistic God, I think.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“I don’t know if it is too vast a subject unless the heat is too great. I want something to which I can give myself heart and soul. True, sincere love does not come easily to me. I feel empty without this. I must find it, maybe in Argentina.”

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“I shall find something worth pouring my all into. I wish I could paint and draw or play the trumpet.”

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“I find writing frustrating. Words seem inadequate for all emotions. I do not have enough mastery of language to put my feelings to paper. Perhaps the author's duty is not to express his feelings but those of the story or novel.”

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“I can't seem to get down to writing. There appears to be no urge. No coherent reason just now.”

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“I can't put anything of value down on paper, only a list of dreary, staccato thoughts.”

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“Am I whingeing, moaning about my life? It is a life of my choosing, God knows. Much I have learnt and how much more I must learn. When can I get down to some serious reading, something instinctive and beneficial?”

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“I cannot write before I have read more and learnt more from what I read.”

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“I must read Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, Dostoevsky, Maupassant and Galsworthy. I must read Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce. I must listen to music, read more, and learn more about modern and ancient. I must read Kant, Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Sophocles — I must become a fountain of knowledge. I must go home soon.”

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“It’s funny how the mind wanders. Here I sit, in the Amazon Basin in the tropics, thinking about marriage and other crap. Someday, far in the distance, I shall read this and think of these days. One day, some good will come from these thoughts, maybe? Perhaps they will help someone else – for sure as hell, they don’t seem to do me much bloody good.”

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“It's too much of a pedestal, love.”

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“Don't worry there’s an end game.”

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“Nevertheless, then he can become a good man. I sometimes think it is necessary to hide away from it all, bury oneself in solitary, surround oneself, go hunting, fishing and walking. Breathe the fresh air. But then, running from it all, not facing up to one's responsibilities, or is one fast getting the hell out of the crappy world?”

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“The real test is for a man to live with himself for an extended period. Alone, there is no room for insincerity or pretensions; he must know what he is. It is then that the doubts arise. If he can live with himself without going mad, then he has achieved something.”

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“I am too preoccupied with myself. I neither trust myself nor my feelings. I dislike my emotions as all being suspect, delusions or springing from weakness.”

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“I am sick of inflated people with smart remarks, smart clothes, and everything geared to fear of not quite matching up to society’s requirements.”

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“The reversal of all my dreams, I had thought that travelling would change my outlook or make me a little more tolerant, but no, it has accentuated all my original hates and fears.”

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“I hate my fears and weaknesses, yet they linger as a personalised torture chamber.”

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“I am sick of the crap I hand out as personal philosophy; the last two words make me spew. I hate my eternal hypocrisy and insincerity and, to cap it all, my sanctimonious whingeing about myself.”

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“Does living mean God? What does anything mean other than the fact of one’s existence?”

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“The answer lies in nature. In the country, I feel goodness. In the city, only stink and rotten pettiness, the eternal hate theme against the human race. But still, under it all, one needs people, although people do not need me as an individual.”

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“Realise, fool, idiot, that it is not your potential that counts; it is what you are now and think now. Tomorrow is nothing; it does not exist.”

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“Today, we lay the pattern for tomorrow.”

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