“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”
Source: Death Masks
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Jim Butcher383
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“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“I can't save you from yourself, you gotta want it.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
You and Me
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Context: Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.
Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017) American actor, musician, and singer
Quoted in The Greatest Quotations of All-Time by Anthony St Peter (2010) p. 155 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8n_w0jNlJO4C&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22You+want+people+walking+away+from+the+conversation+with+some+kernel+of+wisdom+or+some+kind+of+impact.%22&source=bl&ots=TwFxSPy-Gf&sig=yreXTzDTsoNNS1BwMi9hAtGjRGM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sHEyT865EszqOfmvueQG&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22You%20want%20people%20walking%20away%20from%20the%20conversation%20with%20some%20kernel%20of%20wisdom%20or%20some%20kind%20of%20impact.%22&f=false
Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)