"All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."
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"[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know."
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"That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world."
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"Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner."
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"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds."
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"The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own."
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"I love music. I love going out dancing."
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"I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys."
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"I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending."
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"I love going out every night. It’s so exciting."
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"Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself."
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"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile."
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"Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore."
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"It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London."
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"The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess...."
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"It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed."
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"I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?"
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"I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason."
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"The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out."
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"I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded."
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