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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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Gordon Roddick, 1963

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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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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“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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“After nearly three years on the 'move', being on the run, he feels that unreasonable temper, that jealousy, that self-conceit, that lack of confidence, that stutter, that fear, that hanging back, that hiding one's head in the sand, that bending to society, to impress others when it's not necessary, malaise when he can face them. Difficulties to me, the high pressure, the tension, the nakedness of the world, the empty, emotionless fear we live in. Yes, the harshness of it.”

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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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“Maybe those who shout the loudest are the ones who envy one the most.”

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“Could one carve out this ideal [solitary] life without responsibility? Would not one long for company, for music and dancing? For discussion? Would one long for sex, women, for variation, for laughter? That world could prove to be too difficult. I think the bitter reality is that one would long for other people, however hard this is to take.”

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“Things that revolt me most are here. These are the mirrors of my thoughts. The things I curse most are the things I hate within myself. I can have the friends I want. I won’t deceive. I know it will be necessary to be pleasant to people I don’t like. Do things I don’t want to.”

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