#advent

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#characters #fiction #imagination #madame-bovary #reading

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things. ↗

— Gotye

#album #edge #exciting #far #how

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. ↗

— Che Guevara

#am #call #different #different sort #his

You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure. ↗

— Gina Ranalli

#humor #humour #misadventure #titanic #death

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#america #conquest #different #fifty #great

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. ↗

— E. V. Lucas

#adventurous #bed #go #hand #lay

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#difficult #everyone #original #very

Even blind alleys lead somewhere. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#life #life

Words I ONCE HEARD A MAN SAY OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE I READ, OR MAYBE SOMETHING I WROTE A THOUSAND TIMES IN MY MIND. YOU GOT TO FIND YOUR OWN MEANING IN THIS WORLD. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CHANGED, YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE. AS I CONTINUE ON MY JOURNEY OR WHAT SOME CALL THE LONG ROAD OF LIFE I KNOW I WILL REMEMBER THAT SPECIAL YOU. KNOWING I WILL SEE YOU FOREVER IN MY DREAMS IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT. ↗

— Don S. McClure

#couples #love #poems #romance #change

Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#chicago #city #contemporary #downtown #dream