"Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes."

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Source : Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion

Jan Myrdal

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“Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'”
“Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.”

Source : "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.
“Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.”
“Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.”
“I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.”
“Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.”

Source : Douglas Florian (2002). “Insectlopedia”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I came to success very late in life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”

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