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"The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue."
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
"A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
"Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past."
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment."
"I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma."
"What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure."
"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so."
"Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls."
"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
"Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens."
"Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels."
"Writing a book is an adventure."
"I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am."
"Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization."
"In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything."
"I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything."
"An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage."
"The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes."
"People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them."
