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Geoff Nicholson

"Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another."

Source : "The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism". Book by Geoff Nicholson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

Geoff Nicholson

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes

“I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.”
“God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.”
“There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.”
“i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell”
“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”
“Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.”
“When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.”
“I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.”

Source : "Strangers with Candy". www.imdb.com. 1999 - 2000.

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