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> [“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents’ passion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/when-it-comes-to-the-crunch-coming-out-is-the-greatest-of-all/)

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## More by Witi Ihimaera

> [“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/when-it-comes-to-the-crunch-coming-out-is-the-greatest-of-all/)

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> [“When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/when-you-re-sorting-yourself-out-family-are-not-often-the-ones-you/)

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> [“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/he-loved-them-deeply-but-sometimes-love-becomes-a-power-game-between/)

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> [“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/all-truth-is-fiction-really-for-the-teller-tells-it-as-he-sees-it-and/)

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> [“Lots of people come just to dance and have a good time. Here you can do anything you want to do, be anyone you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/lots-of-people-come-just-to-dance-and-have-a-good-time-here-you-can/)

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> [“It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/it-felt-right-not-to-talk-it-felt-good-just-to-be-sometimes-there-was/)

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> [“Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/harper-saw-a-dark-young-guy-trying-to-stop-from-laughing-so-much-by/)

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> [“When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/when-everybody-else-is-bending-with-the-wind-very-few-people-will/)

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> [“I have always loved long journeys. The act of leaving accustomed surroundings is a release from real time, real life. You can place that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/i-have-always-loved-long-journeys-the-act-of-leaving-accustomed/)

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> [“In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/in-the-small-things-is-the-genetic-imprint-of-the-larger-things-you/)

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