"There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life."

-- Dervla Murphy

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“O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.”

Source : Thomas Ken, Esq. William HAWKINS (of the Middle Temple.), James Thomas ROUND (1838). “The Prose Works of ... T. K. ... To which are Added Some of His Letters (never Before Published) and a Short Account of His Life by W. Hawkins ... Collected by J. T. Round”, p.365
“I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.”
“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”
“We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents”
“I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.”
“Two autumns and I have not changed enough.”
“If I like something, I get it and I put it on.”
“I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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