“You have to love what is best in that other person and only what’s best in that other person. That’s what you have to love….” Bill Murray on Thoreau’s book, Friendship
Learning By Being
“I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where? To this very moment...”
“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.” Martin Scorsese
Tunner: We’re probably the first tourists they’ve had since the war.
Kit Moresby: Tunner, we’re not tourists. We’re travelers.
Tunner: Oh. What’s the difference?
Port Moresby: A tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.
Kit Moresby: Whereas a traveler might not come back at all.
Kit Moresby: I hate choices.
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
“Above all, he liked it that everything was one’s own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared.” – Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
(Original teletype manuscript scroll for On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1951.
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What was it? (Flying Fish L.A. 1986)
