Quotes
June 25, 2026
These quotes stay here so long as I can remember where they came from:
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Enjoy the side trips. A lot, okay? Things that are more important than what you’re hunting for could be right there by the side of the road.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
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When the facts change, I change my mind—what do you do, sir?
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.
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But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Far to the west, across the sea, there is a place called Vinland. It is warm and fertile, far from slavery and the flames of war. No one can reach you there.