"I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about."

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Source : Christopher Isherwood (2013). “A Single Man: A Novel”, p.129, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Christopher Isherwood

“Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!”
“Youâ€™ll have to be my conscience.â€ He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. â€œMine isnâ€™t going to grow back.”
“As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)”
“Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.”

Source : John Sherman (2012). “Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories”, p.176, The Mountaineers Books
“Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.”
“Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.”
“The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.”
“I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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