"Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

John Gimlette

#Dog Quotes #Successful Quotes #Ice Quotes

“Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.”
“Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”
“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

Source : "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 28), 1997.
“People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.”
“The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.”
“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”

Source : Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge
“Before you take the leap, before you jump, really make sure it's going to be something you want to get out of bed [to do] everyday, because it is so hard. So you want to make sure that you're really committed.”
“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one anotherâ€™s virtues more than we speak of one anotherâ€™s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: â€œCynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”

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