#adventures

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ↗

— Anatole France

#among #critic #good #his #masterpieces

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#around #because #certainly #comes #development

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

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#anything #been #careful #careless #had

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

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal