"When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone."

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Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

John McPhee

#Ocean Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.”
“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.”
“Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.168, Broadway Books
“Women can build stability. We can make peace.”
“That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.”
“Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.”
“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
“Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.”

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