Quotes About Exploration

I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously.

my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What

Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?

I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious

It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we'd better get ready. We need to know where we'd like to go.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Where should we go?" "I don't care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don't know people.

That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

Don't think, old man, he said aloud. Sail on this course and take it when it comes.

Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. On the question you raised, the effects of wounds vary greatly. Simple wounds which do not break bone are of little account. They sometimes give confidence. Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.-Interview for the Paris Review, 1956

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? "Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?" le chiese "Tutto quanto." "Va bene" disse il colonnello. "Incominciamo.

I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for shelter to the right and finally came out on the lee side of the Boulevard St.-Michel and worked on down it past the Cluny and the Boulevard St.-Germain until I came to a good café that I knew on the Place St.-Michel.