"The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure."

-- Frederick Forsyth

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“Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.”
“I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.”
“Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.”
“A pitcher is not a ballplayer.”
“Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.”
“I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.”
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
“If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books

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