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Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. — Mary Butts
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the… — Joshua Slocum
To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round… — Joshua Slocum
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut,… — Joshua Slocum
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails,… — Douglas Clegg
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has… — Vimala Thakar
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. — Dionysius Lardner
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at… — Carl Sagan
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that… — Jacques Vallee
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge,… — John Galsworthy
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. — Donald Justice
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in… — William Kidd
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. — Ella Maillart
Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a… — Joshua Slocum
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. — George Duke
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and,… — Adelbert von Chamisso
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the… — Ernest Lawrence
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed… — Jonathan Swift
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what… — Barbara Holland
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. — James Russell Lowell

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