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“People such as Blur's Alex James make too much of a fuss about champagne, just because it pops and it's fizzy and golden. Big deal. Rice Krispies do exactly the same”
― Frankie Poullain, Dancing in the Darkness

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“The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse "los," meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

tags: field-guide-to-getting-lost, loss, lost, rebecca-solnit

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“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

tags: childhood, memory, nostalgia, writing

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“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
― David Lynch

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“One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

tags: blue, golden-gate-bridge, longing, mount-tamalpais, san-francisco, travel, wanderlust

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