"There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more."

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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

Adam Gopnik

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“I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.”
“Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.”

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“Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.”
“Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.”
“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Source : Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.
“Push on and faith will catch up with you.”
“Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.”

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