"Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable."

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Jon Krakauer

#Style Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.”
“Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.”
“Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.”
“No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.”
“There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.”
“From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.”
“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”
“To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.”

Source : Matthew Reilly (2009). “Scarecrow”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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