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"In India everything has a use and a value."
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"A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."
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". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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Personal Development
"Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ['Fish for silence.']"
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"Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!"
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"In India everything has a use and a value."
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"I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children."
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"Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian."
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"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
Travel
"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
"As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end."
Adventure
"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
Culture
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."
Aspiration
"The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail."
Exploration
"I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains."
Violence
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"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
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