"To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go."

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Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

Joshua Slocum

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”
“Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue”

Source : "Be The Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience & Virtue". Book by Charles Saatchi, April 2, 2012.
“I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and there is a part when I digress and explain that the name Odysseus is related to the word for pain. Like "-odyne" in the word "anodyne," pain. It's the same, "-odyne" as in Odysseus. He's the man who both suffers endlessly, in trying to get home, but also inflicts a lot of suffering on everyone he visits.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.”
“And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.”
“nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?”
“There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.”
“Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.”

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