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    Lord Byron
    “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    “Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.”
    ― Doug Stanhope
    tags: anarchy, countries, delusions, irrationality, libertarian, statism
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
    tags: communication, knowledge, languages, travel, understanding
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    “Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.”
    ― Paul Sheehan
    tags: time, travel
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    Kirsten Hubbard
    “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.”
    ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
    tags: inspirational, kirsten-hubbard, travel, wanderlove
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    Nicolas Bouvier
    “Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.”
    ― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World
    tags: travel
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    Margaret George
    “I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.”
    ― Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
    tags: travel
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    Gregory Maguire
    “The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: gregory-maguire, inspirational, travel, wicked
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    “Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: brilliance-quotes, excellence-quotes, fame-quotes, genius-quotes, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-for-women, inspirational-quotes-for-writers, inspirational-quotes-motivation, mediocrity-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-runners, motivational-quotes-for-women, popular-quotes, popularity-quotes, skill-quotes, spotlight, success-quotes, talent-quotes
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “La conversation de Charles était plate comme un trottoir de rue, et les idées de tout le monde y défilaient dans leur costume ordinaire, sans exciter d'émotion, de rire ou de rêverie”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Vincent James Perrone
    “If money could talk I’d translate.”
    ― Vincent James Perrone, Starving Romantic
    tags: funny, humor, money, money-talks, translating, translation
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    Roy Duffield
    “everything is silent
    everything is calm
    from far enough away”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: calm, indifference, peace, silence, turning-a-blind-eye, war
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    Roy Duffield
    “The Invaders are in your very midst!’
    The Newsman admits.
    The People
    start having fits
    after paying him handsomely
    for his services.”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: fake-news, islamophobia, journalism, media, media-bias, media-distortion, news, racism-in-britain, reporters, tabloids
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    Roy Duffield
    “We let it slide,
    turned our eyes inside-blind
    when you made our little sister cry
    burnt tears,
    blood, we let it slide
    when you held our brother
    by the throat
    until he choked
    out
    and died.
    We let it slide
    when we finally tried
    to make a sound but
    you had each other’s back
    and lied.
    We let it slide.
    Even now
    we let it slide.”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: black-lives-matter, brutality, defund-the-police, fuck-the-police, george-floyd, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, racism, racism-in-america
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    Roy Duffield
    “If their rules made sense
    and sense ruled—
    If their laws weren’t so brok- en
    I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: breaking-rules, breaking-the-law, breaking-the-rules, injustice, law, laws, rules, unjust, unjust-law, unjust-laws
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    Roy Duffield
    “the morning dew
    soon gone, beneath
    our passing soles”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: death, dew, haiku, life, life-is-short, passing, passing-away, passing-on, time, time-on-earth
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    Roy Duffield
    “smoking kills
    and killing smokes.”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: anti-war, antimetabole, chiasmus, death, napalm, smoking, smoking-kills, war, war-crimes, war-dead
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    Roy Duffield
    “old ladies once again
    shared their needles
    and the cats weren’t the only cats
    licking people”
    ― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall
    tags: cats, knitting, knitting-humor, licking, pandemic, post-covid-19-era, post-pandemic, postcovid, postpandemic, sharing
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    “In that sublime dream she was everyone and all things, both herself and others, the observer and what she observed. But in the telling of it language got in the way, broke things up, forced the dream to take on difference and contradiction…words will divide us up and cage us and condemn us.”
    ― Carl Neville, Resolution Way
    tags: dreams, language, words
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    William Teets
    “NOT DRINKING IS HARD. DRINKING IS HARDER.”
    ― William Teets
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    “War is a crime dressed as politics”
    ― John O'Hare, Songs of Revolution: Poems against oppression
    tags: crime, politics, war, war-crimes
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    “but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can't touch it...”
    ― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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    John Steinbeck
    “It was a glorious game. Theft robbed of the stigma of theft, crime altruistically committed - what is more gratifying?”
    ― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met;
    Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
    Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
    For ever and for ever when I move.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
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    “too late for discretion, too early for breakfast”
    ― Anthony Tao, We Met in Beijing
    tags: beijing, breakfast, discretion, drinking, drinking-alcohol, drunk, nightlife, party, partying
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    “The Earth is upside-down. We could fall to freedom / If we believed in it”
    ― Anthony Tao, We Met in Beijing
    tags: beijing, being-free, freedom, freefall
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    “Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand.”
    ― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
    tags: inspirational, life, poetry, strength
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    “How the scars / mellow to yellow”
    ― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
    tags: healing, mellow, poetry, scars
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    “and at night, I read my own bedtime stories”
    ― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
    tags: absent-parents, bedtime, bedtime-stories, bedtime-story, childhood, coming-of-age, growing-up, night, nighttime, poetry
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    Jack London
    “we have much to blush for in the acts of our ancestors… We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.”
    ― Jack London, The Iron Heel
    tags: capitalism, evolution, human-evolution, social-evolution, socialism, society
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