"My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself."

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“While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.”
“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”
“Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.”
“Chivalry should be consensual.”
“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor
“We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.”
“The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.”

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