Neal Thompson
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Light This Candle - Chapter 9
(Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated May 13, 2015 06:32PM
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In advance of this Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the day Alan Shepard became America’s first spaceman, I’ll be posting excerpts from ‘Light This Candle,’ along with photos and links related to Shepard and the book. Here’s a sample from Chap 9
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“You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.”
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
“Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery. But like cats and birds we are pussy-footed and pigeon-toed and our footsteps lead toward home.… The Eskimo longs for his northern bleakness and his ice hut, the cowboy dreams of the wide open towns and prairies of the west, the old salt is looking out to sea … and down in the hold of many ships are dead Chinamen’s bones going home to China.”
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
“ BELIEVE IT! Millions of gallons of wine, stored in casks in warehouses, ruptured and spilled, turning Santa Rosa’s streets into red rivers of wine, whose bouquet attracted the discerning noses of farm animals. Residents soon found drunken pigs and dogs staggering in the streets.”
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
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