"Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong."

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Source : Ron Franscell (2011). “Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe ... and Everything Else”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

Ron Franscell

#Journey Quotes #Where You Come Quotes #Where You Belong Quotes

“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.
“There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”
“Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.”
“In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.”
“There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.”
“I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.”
“Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.”
“Determination could easily become obsession.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.189, Hachette UK

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