"Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be."

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Source : Louis Bayard (2014). “Roosevelt's Beast: A Novel”, p.34, Henry Holt and Company

Louis Bayard

#Rivers Quotes #Long Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.”
“You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.”
“I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.”
“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”
“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
“There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.”

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“Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.”

Source : "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.
“I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.”

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