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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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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“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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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“It is better that we look, in mutual want, and let the rest go by.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“Regret it afterwards, but with what pleasant regrets, there will be no tattered shameful memories of a greedy love, hotly stolen one parting night, no shattered illusions or painful recriminations, just a gentle, wistful smile and stirring of desire, a little regret for a cool and pleasant body still virgin for each other. It seems a crime not to take, but perhaps the crime would be greater in the taking.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“The anticipation of anything, act or experience, be what it may, is always better than the accomplishment of it.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“The completion of the anticipated is often anticlimactic disillusionment, cruel and harsh. Thus, ideals are good as long as they are unattainable, even though we swear we will attain them.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“What I like about ideals is that they want to be hot and passionate and appear nonsensical to the sensible man.”

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Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963