"A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there."

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Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

Damon Galgut

#Journey Quotes #Space Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work”
“Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.”
“When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.”
“If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”
“A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.”

Source : "RD Interview: Malcolm Gladwell Explains the Truth About Underdogs" by Barbara O'Dair, www.rd.com.
“The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.”
“Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.”

Source : Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”
“I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people understand that being a feminist means everyone should be equal. What really shocked me was being in America during the Republican primaries. I haven't been exposed to that kind of thinking. I was so shocked that that kind of thinking exists in a modern world, and in a first-world country.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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