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“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
“There isn’t a greater sense of loneliness than when you know you’re making a mistake and you still don’t ask for help.”
― Confessions of a Curious Bookseller
― Confessions of a Curious Bookseller
“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore suitable punishable by the gods. One would be drowned by Poseidon early on and die extremely happy.”
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
“Life was too short for bad books, or even good books that you just don’t like.”
― North Haven
― North Haven
“What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.”
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
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