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War and Peace
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He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good.
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Kevin Fedarko
“If you watch a man spend fifty years of his life on his knees in the darkness digging coal, my father could have told me, then you calibrate your blessings by a different set of metrics than most people.”
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko
“This was a sky belonging to a time that no longer exists—a sky that has never been seen, or even imagined, by most people living in such places as Boston or Dallas or Los Angeles. A sky whose wildness can call forth and amplify”
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko
“We’ve been friends for so long, I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.”
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko
“When you know there’s a good chance you’re going into the red room, you have to reach down and find a different place mentally,” he’d tell his squad.I “The thing that distinguishes successful athletes from everybody else is a realization that your limits are not necessarily where you think they are—and that your body is capable of doing more, often far more, than you expect it can.” Although Pete never really tried to make the downhill team, he absorbed many of these ideas, in particular the conviction that any challenge could successfully be met with the right combination of drive, grit, and sunny optimism—and if this proved insufficient, well, it was okay to just wing it.”
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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