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Below him the view opened out

Before him the view opened out showing a mighty panorama of rugged mountains and canyons lost in darkness, of forests blasted by lightning and the gray bleached bones of long dead trees. Under the low gray clouds the scene was weirdly somber and majestic. the higher ridges and peaks vanished in the low clouds and before him the wide shelf upon which he rode stretched out, bare and unpromising. Louis L'Amour (in Radigan )

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change (Stephen Hawking)

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The learning pit

Dick Cavett:   “What makes you stuck?”   Paul Simon: “Well, everywhere I went, led me where I didn’t want to be. So I was stuck.”

Easy types and hard types (Anne Tyler)

DZHA on Unsplash "Sometimes," she said, "it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over." Anne Tyler (in A Spool Of Blue Thread )

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be (Joan Didion)

 

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease (Naguib Mahfouz)

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