Tim Cahill Quotes

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• I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
• You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of…
• The explorer is the person who is lost.
• An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in…
• Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under…
• When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own…
• The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last…
• A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which…
• Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.
• I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to…
• I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to…
• In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.
• You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
• Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing.…
• The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
• There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write…
• A journey is measured in friends, not miles.
• Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.

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