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- To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can… — Horace Kephart
- There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was… — Walter Benjamin
- Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way… — Geoff Nicholson
- There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
- Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit
- God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and… — Harold Brodkey
- A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. — David McCord
- The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers… — Don Lemon
- Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast… — Michael Cisco
- Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because… — Gregory Mcdonald