"You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!"

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Source : Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

Gideon Defoe

#Running Quotes #Men Quotes #Air Quotes

“I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 25, 2011.
“An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.”
“There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.”
“A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.”
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
“He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.”
“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.”
“I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”

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