Moreover, until very recently Ukraine’s neighbours did not see it as a separate country, or Ukrainians as a separate people, at all. To Russians it was part of Russia; to Poles, part of Poland.
“The space monkey continues, "Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.”
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
“I always tell travel writing students to use these early hours to explore, because one’s surroundings—the colorful drinks, the melodic sirens, the sweet-and-foul smells—will not be as clear or as sharp in a few days. At the start, everything stands out as if in high definition, especially, strangely, if you’re groggy from jet lag or insomnia.”
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
“What you have to consider,” he says, "is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Sometimes, when you go on foot there, when you walk in the woods near the old pagan temples, you feel something very strong. It is like the energy you feel in a church, or the energy you feel when a boy and a girl are in love and touch hands for the first time.”
― Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
― Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
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