"Even aimless journeys have a purpose."

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Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “One for the Road: Revised Edition”, p.10, Vintage

#Journey Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.”
“I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.”
“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”
“The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.”
“My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.”
“It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.”
“The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”
“Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.”

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