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He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.


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It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.



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if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want



And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.



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Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?



if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.



He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.



Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.



No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.



You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.



Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.





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The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.



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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.



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I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.



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