“Surfing is a secret garden, not easily entered. My memory of learning a spot, of coming to know and understand a wave, is usually inseparable from the friend with whom I tried to climb its walls.”
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
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“The Best and the Brightest”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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