"Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me."

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Source : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books

Greg Child

#Climbing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Smoking Quotes

“An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.”
“Happiness hates the timid. So does science.”
“My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.”
“Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.”
“Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.”
“Kid, you'll move mountains.”
“For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.”
“"Our first conversation was on the phone. I was in the bathtub, and I had to tell him that I was in the bathtub because I was afraid he would think I was, like, playing in the toilet when he heard water swishing around. [...] Then we had breakfast in Santa Monica, and I spit egg inside of his mouth when I was talking.”

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