"A plane is a bad place for an……" — Shana Alexander
"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice."
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22 Quotes by Shana Alexander
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Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
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