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“It was Anthony Marston who disagreed with the majority. 'A bit unsporting, what?' he said. 'Ought to ferret out the mystery before… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities.… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
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“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“It is believed by many that the military life is one of adventure and excitement. In truth, that life more often consists… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
... there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove… — Jim Banks Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
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“Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place. “Why not?” I said, but she was… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
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“Now it’s clear to me, I haven’t understood as well as I should, the cracks on the ground we stood. A blast… — Ray Anyasi Copy Share Image
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
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“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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