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Quotes About Out-of-the-way

Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
~ Paul Theroux
As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Here's a card I'm holding. Finland. There's where you first got interested in Kang, isn't it? He must have been using it as some sort of base. Quiet, out-of-the-way place, where people mind their own business. I'll bet you can go for long walks with no one else around. What did he do to catch your attention? Or did the Finns alert you?
~ James Church
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
~ Adam Gopnik
They steered south. Gordita Beach emerged from the haze, gently flaking away in the salt breezes, the ramshackle town in a spill of weather-beaten colors, like paint chips at some out-of-the-way hardware store, and the hillside up to Dunecrest, which Doc had always thought of, especially after nights of excess, as steep, a grade everybody sooner or later wiped their clutch trying to get up and out of town on, looking from out here strangely flat, hardly there at all.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
~ George Byron
My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care, 'cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.
~ Mark Kozelek
he began, over dinner at Cantler's, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near
~ Laura Lippman