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Plot, in its purest sense is a kind of clockwork mechanism that arranges pieces of a story together to cause it to frequently arrive at an overly contrived solution, where storytelling is more akin to creating a feeling like real life, even
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
“He doesn’t care that the mood was different to begin with because he knows that nothing important ever happens unless he is there to witness it.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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