"Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all."

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Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Andrzej Stasiuk

#Healthy Quotes #Form Quotes

“THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two. There should be dancing in the streets!”
“Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.”
“What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.”
“We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.”
“I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!”

Source : "Exclusive: Ariel Winter of Modern Family". Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 16, 2011.
“Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.”
“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation
“Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled”

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