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Quote by Gordon Roddick, 1963

“God, please, can I find someone beautiful, true, sincere, honest and idealistic? Please may they exist, that I may myself be this way.”

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“Philosophy is, I think, a way to happiness by logical reasoning, to wipe out illogicality’s irrationalities.”

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“A need, yes, there is a need because time and time again, I prove that I am frightened of it. Yes, a gut-twisting, tormenting fear of all people and what they think of me, always; always, this is over my shoulder.”

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“I cannot escape from myself. I need a holiday from myself, a long holiday. I must shed my old self like a snake sheds its skin.”

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“I must think about working, marrying and money.”

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“That tree out there, how green? How many leaves? Many thousands, hanging taught, stretched stems pulpy with parenchyma, fleshy with growth, glutinous, gluttonous growth, dripping growth till it grows weary and there is no more growth, then it dies and drops brownly to the green earth and lies dead.”

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“It waits for the cruel flame; then it will recoil, curl up, blacken and scream to be blown away on the wind, another dead thing cast off by the wind of time.”

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“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.”

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“What shape is its mother, the trunk of life? Why, it's conical, just like the pear tree that bloody partridge sits in every Christmas time.”

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