Land of the free Quote by William S. Burroughs

“Smooth sailing doth not a sailor make.”

— Ron Feasel

“But sailors were much better adversaries than the average aristocrat. They flipped cards with feral tricks, swore when they lost, swore when they won,…

— Marie Rutkoski

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”

— Patton Oswalt

“Great storms only challenge great sailors.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The evenings were the worst. I stood at the window of my hotel room and looked at the traffic and the thousands of little…

— Herman Koch

“Two-thirty in the morning was kind of a bitch as times went. It fell into the in-between, nowhere land. Too late to get a…

— Kylie Scott

“How I wish I were by the sea again. This slack season the men must be painting the hulls of the boats or sleeping…

— Simeon Dumdum Jr

“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light…

— Leonce Patry

“There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly…

— Candace Vianna

“And so when               the sailors               hear the shore’s yawn And see the               lighthouse wick               upon the sea They’ll know              …

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia

“Overnight our place was busting its seams with idiotics. Anything went, and every fool thing you might think of under the influence of hashish…

— Greg Merritt

“...and on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked…

— Vendela Vida