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You should (...) begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been to hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservatism (...) In reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit than a secure future.

He had a good time when he was around people, a real gootime. At the swap meet he’d talk and talk and talk to everybody who came by.
He must have met six or seven dozen people in Niland, and he was friendly with
every one of them. He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn’t a hermit. He
did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up companyfor the times when he knew nobody would be ar

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and
wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

I've always felt there is something genetically instilled in Californians - that California is a place of death, a place people are drawn to because they don't realize deep down they're actually afraid of what they want. It's new, and they are escaping their histories while at the same time moving headlong towards their own extinctions. Desire and death are all mixed up with the thrill and risk of the unknown.

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