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One wants to be alone, fundamentally, not to escape others but to escape oneself, the versions of self compelled into existence by others.
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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Hal Porter
Born:
February 16, 1911
Died:
September 29, 1984
(aged 73)
Bio:
Harold Edward Porter was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
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