"This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

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Source : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

Shana Alexander

#Love Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
“My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.”

Source : Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”
“Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.”
“Everything is true-Everything is permissible!”
“When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.”
“The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.”
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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