"Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen."

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Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

Jonathan Raban

#Loneliness Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Things Happen Quotes

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”
“Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.”
“May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.”
“Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.”
“[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.”
“I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.”

Source : "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.
“Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.”
“Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.”

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