#adventures

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#bad #happened #life #little #make

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#almost #because #could #creating #degree

نحن نرفض النظر إلى الحياة بوصفها مغامرة كبرى لا حدود لها ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #novel #life

A final word. Curious. Many years of reading many books has led me to a somewhat bizarre literary critical theory, namely that all significant texts are distinguished by the preponderance of a single word. In Alice’s adventures in Wonderland that word is ‘curious’ (In The Brothers Karamazov it’s ‘ecstasy’, but that needn’t concern us here.) The word ‘curious’ appears so frequently in Carroll’s text that it becomes a kind of tocsin awakening us from our reverie. But it isn’t the strangeness of Alice’s Wonderland that it reminds us of-it’s the bizarre incomprehensibility of our own. ↗

— Will Self

#bizarre

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#pain #freedom

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them. ↗

— Anna Katharine Green

#humor #humor

The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american