"I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure."

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Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

#Adventure Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Air Quotes

“I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.”
“Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.”

Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.
“The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. U.S. tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the U.S. borders and outside the U.S. borders.”
“As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.”
“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”
“I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?”
“What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?”
“Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say”

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