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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
Cool
Affairs
Respect
Privacy
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Loneliness
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We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures we are the otters of the universe.
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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