“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
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“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Weirdo
― Weirdo
“Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?”
― New Moon
― New Moon
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,’ he wrote. ‘Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers
― An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers
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