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“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”

Has Beens Might Hate Common Fiction Adventure Conflict Lonely Agreement Might Have Been Love And Hate Musings

Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography

Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography

“The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.”

Country Stories Dream Beautiful Evil Wonder Adventure Lonely Inspired Fever Kim Parables

Author:Rick Bass

“Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.”

“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”

Ifs World Self Whole Seems Nature One Thing Adventure Lonely Whole World Snow Sufficient Self Sufficient Snowflake Winter Snow

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.”

Ifs Feels Ends Night Adventure Lonely Extraordinary Feeling Lonely I Feel Lonely

Author:Katy Perry

“I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.”

Children Book Facts Feelings Remember Found Games Interesting Adventure Mets Lonely Dialogue Occasions Feeling Lonely Rare Occasion

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.”

Children Stills Moments Able Certain Stars Felt Laughing Share Adventure Happenings Lonely Sight Forgotten Come Up Scales Faster Peter Irritating Mermaid Neverland

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.”

Men May Doe Has Beens Lasts Grows Space Walks Sea Sky Adventure Mountain Findings Lonely Flight Ice Crafts Sand Climbs Aviation Void Destined Great Adventure Lonely Places

Author:Frederick Forsyth

“As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.”

Book Reading Adventure Walking Lonely Clouds Miles Dreamer Youngsters Head In The Clouds

Book:View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

Source: View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

“Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.”

Writing Faces Names Sound Dark Hell Trouble Adventure Lonely Face To Face Lonely Places

Author:Louis L'Amour