"Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys."

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Gail Pool

#Journey Quotes #Maps Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. Itâ€™s a vehicle to help you go to work. Thatâ€™s why itâ€™s called grace.”
“Science fiction isnâ€™t just thinking about the world out there. Itâ€™s also thinking about how that world might beâ€”a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if theyâ€™re going to change the world we live in, theyâ€”and all of usâ€”have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”
“A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.”
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
“So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”
“Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.”

Source : Stuart Dybek (1990). “The coast of Chicago”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.”
“The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.”

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