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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
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I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.
Oliver Sacks
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The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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