"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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"Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed."
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"There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom."
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"True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something."
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"I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited."
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"Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are."
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"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
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"And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?"
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"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free."
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"I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!"
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"Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads."
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"In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty."
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"A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him."
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"The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant."
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"A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free."
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"So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free."
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"We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free."
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