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“The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.”
Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.343, BoD – Books on Demand
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“I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets me off all hot and guilty and scared and rambling and wistful, like I am now.”
Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
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“Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.”
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“Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
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“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”
Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.103, Penguin
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“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”
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“The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?”
