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    John Irving
    “Logic is relative.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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    Gerry Abbey
    “I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, inspirational, taiwan, travel, traveling-alone
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    Gerry Abbey
    “There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, inspirational, memoir, taiwan, travel, travel-writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, inspirational, memoir, taiwan, teachers, teaching, travel, travel-writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, beer, drinking, memoir, taiwan, travel, travel-writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.”
    ― Gerry Abbey
    tags: asia, drinking, memoir, taiwan, teachers, teaching, travel, travel-writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, drinking, inspirational, memoir, southeast-asia, taiwan, teachers, teaching, travel, travel-writing, writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, inspirational, memoir, reflection-on-life, southeast-asia, taiwan, teachers, teaching, travel, travel-writing
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    Gerry Abbey
    “And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.”
    ― Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
    tags: asia, chinese, english, language, memoir, southeast-asia, taiwan, teachers, teaching, travel, travel-writing
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Ray Charles
    “Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
    ― Ray Charles
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

    I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Richard Halliburton
    “Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
    ― Richard Halliburton
    tags: adventure, beautiful, caprice, explore, freedom, indulgence, respectability, romantic, travel, travel-writing, travelling
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    Paul Theroux
    “He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.”
    ― Paul Theroux
    tags: travel-writing, traveling
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    Pico Iyer
    “It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.”
    ― Pico Iyer
    tags: travel-writing
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that can have patience can have what he will.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: determination, inspirational, patience
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: drinking, humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: death, life, wordplay
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: advice, apology
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  • #26
    Steve Martin
    “Be so good they can't ignore you.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: hater, haters, life
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