"The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long."

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Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.754, Knopf

Colin Fletcher

#Weather Quotes #Long Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.”
“The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.”
“He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.”
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
“You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.”
“Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.”
“The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.”
“Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.”

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