"There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

John Gimlette

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.”

Source : Geoff Thompson (1998). “The Art of Fighting Without Fighting: Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion”, p.36, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”

Source : John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”
“If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?”
“I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph”
“Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.”

Source : "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.
“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”
“For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.”

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