"When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable."

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Edmund Hillary

#Climbing Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.”
“Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.”
“Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.148, Stanford University Press
“I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.”
“Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?”
“We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.”
“It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.”
“I write in the studio.”

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