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"Writing a novel is like having a dream."
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"In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass-rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road."
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"Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them."
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"I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing."
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"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."
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"Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure."
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"A man cannot deserve adventures, he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs."
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"Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says "come hither to be reason enough to go."
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"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
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"Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused."
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
Wisdom
"I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another."
Grief
"For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!"
Reality
"And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered."
Tragedy
"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
Emotional
"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
Change
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
Time
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
Advice
"The wisest of the wise may err."
Fallibility
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Friendship
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