"After all why should our goal be the……" — M. John Harrison
"After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence."
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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
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Perception of a state is not the state.
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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go…
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why…
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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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