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"The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"We just had a near-life experience!"
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
Adaptation
"The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade."
Survival
"There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping."
Adventure
"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."
Culture
"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
Power
"Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way."
Adventure
"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
Travel
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
Storytelling
"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."
Survival
"It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa."
Culture
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