"A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply."

-- Paul Fussell

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“If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.”
“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber
“Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.”
“Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self”
“One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.”
“I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.”

Source : "The Slow Boil" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”
“Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.”

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