"But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."

-- Christopher McCandless

#Passion Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Reality Quotes

“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
“I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.”
“I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.”
“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

Source : John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing
“It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.”
“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.”
“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.”
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

Source : Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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