"From time to time it has struck me……" — Luke Davies
"From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving."
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20 Quotes by Luke Davies
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The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
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Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily…
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What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost…
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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and…
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When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
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The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so…
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If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all…
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In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and…
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Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs,…
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Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making.…
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You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just…
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More Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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