"No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be."

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Source : Chuck Thompson (2010). “To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism”, p.15, Macmillan

Chuck Thompson

#Inspirational Quotes #Travel Quotes

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”
“True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.”
“Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.”
“Power is the ability to do good things for others.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.”

Source : "Tori Spelling: I Struggle with Guilt As a Working Mom" by Anya Leon, celebritybabies.people.com. September 12, 2011.
“There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.”
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or laterâ€”no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forgetâ€”we will return.”
“You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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