"Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end."

-- Bret Lott

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“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.”
“But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.”
“Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.”
“No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.”
“I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.”
“After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.”
“I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedyâ€”for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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