“You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
“And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.”
“Don’t you like it here?”
“Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.”
“You don’t even know where I’m going.”
“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Don’t you like it here?”
“Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.”
“You don’t even know where I’m going.”
“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Imagination, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense...”
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“One can waste years this way, systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
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