Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
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