"Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens."

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Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2006.

Peter Mayle

#Simple Quotes #Journey Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.”
“Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?”
“I have the best job in the world with the best fans in the world”
“Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence, no hatred and no evil can ever completely erase. I have also learned there is a majesty in mankind. It is a majesty that no sickness, no suffering, no want or lack, no poverty and no pain can ever truly subjugate.”
“My acting gives me my self-worth”
“Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain -- this is force.”
“Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.”
“There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.”

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