"I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man."

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Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

Joshua Slocum

#Beautiful Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.”

Source : "Hope hailed by friends, family, fans". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2003.
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
“To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.”
“I think itâ€™s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, itâ€™s time to find out what the truth really is thatâ€™s out there. We ought to do it because itâ€™s right, we ought to do it because the American people, and people around the world quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because itâ€™s the law.”
“I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.”
“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”

Source : Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.151, Penguin
“One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.”
“I just didn't want to shoot other people.”

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