“She had the skin of a Dresden figurine and the mouth of a Freuhauf driver.”
― Blue Highways
― Blue Highways
“In our culture these days, happiness gets all the attention, but meaning is arguably more important … Happiness is fleeting while meaning is enduring; happiness concentrates on the self while meaning concentrates on things larger than the self; happiness focuses on the present while meaning focuses on stitching together the past, present, and future.”
― Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
― Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
“It’s hard to argue with the success you two have had … Right. The great measuring stick of money”
― Total Control
― Total Control
“Our beginnings do not foreshadow our ends if one judges by the Hudson River.”
― Blue Highways
― Blue Highways
“The owner, Hugh Elliott, laid out a 1910 photograph of the drugstore when you could buy a freshly concocted purge or balm, or a fountain Bromo-Seltzer, or a dulcimer; although the pharmaceuticals were gone, you could still get a Bromo or a dulcimer (next to the Texas Instruments 1025 Memory Calculator). The photograph showed one other change: what had been a spacious room of several bent-steel chairs and tables was now top to bottom with merchandise. What had been a place of community was now a stuffed retail outlet. Across the nation, that change was the history of the soda fountain pharmacy.”
― Blue Highways
― Blue Highways
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