"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Running Quotes #Memories Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'”
“If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.”
“While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruitâ€”thatâ€™s all. But I like sweets.”
“We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.”
“I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.”
“Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.”

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