Quotes About Adventure
ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD?
~ John Irving
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The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).
~ John Irving
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
~ John Irving
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Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry – in order not to miss the bedtime story.
~ John Irving
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I think you're being selfish." "What do you mean, selfish?" Wally asked. "A war is for your country, it's serving your country!" "To you, it's an adventure," Candy said. "That's what's selfish about it.
~ John Irving
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They were members of Maine's very small money class. Their business, as they ridiculously called it, didn't make a cent, but they didn't need to make money; they were born rich. Their needless enterprise consisted of taking people to the wilderness and creating for them the sensation that they were lost there; they also took people shooting down rapids in frail rafts or canoes, creating for them the sensation that they would surely be bashed to death before they drowned.
~ John Irving
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It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema-bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man's face.
~ John Irving
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If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.
~ John Irving
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Don't worry, Bill," Borkman told me. "I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back!" "In your back pocket—yes," I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis.
~ John Irving
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Melville's Moby-Dick—
~ John Irving
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His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.
~ John Irving
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You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?
~ John Irving
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If you're fortunate enough to discover a way of life that you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~ John Irving
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no planning, Graff--that's the first thing. No mapping it out, no dates to get anywhere, no dates to get back. Just think of things! Think of mountains, say, or think of beaches. Think of rich widows and farm girls! Then just point to where you feel they'll be, and pick the roads the same way too--pick them for the curves and hills. That's the second thing--to pick roads that the beast will love.
~ John Irving
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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried.
~ John Irving
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the first chair headed down the mountain would be Molly's last chairlift. Willy
~ John Irving
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The Harry Lime Theme"—
~ John Irving
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Bromley Mountain. It was close to
~ John Irving
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Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.
~ John Jackson Miller
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There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.
~ John Jackson Miller
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Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!
~ John Jackson Miller
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Whether this is your first Star Wars adventure, or one of many over the years: Thank you. Thank you for your dedication to and passion for the Star Wars galaxy. Because of fans like you around the world, the Force will be with us, always. Dave Filoni Executive Producer and Supervising Director, Star Wars Rebels
~ John Jackson Miller
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Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.
~ John Jackson Miller
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Emigrant Gap. Califo
~ John Jakes
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