"With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them."

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Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carsten Jensen

#Travel Quotes #Ocean Quotes #America Quotes

“We live in the world our questions create,”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.”
“No matter what sign you were born under, everybody else's horoscope will be more fun than yours.”
“The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”
“The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.”
“If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.”

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