"I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak."

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Robin Day

#Freak Quotes #Climbs Quotes #Bits Quotes

“There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writerâ€™s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.”
“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”
“Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”
“My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.”

Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.16, Penguin
“We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...”
“Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.”
“The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world”

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