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Paul Theroux

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."
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"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
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"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."
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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
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"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
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"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness."
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"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
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