Alastair Humphreys » India

Out of all the words I’ve written, in thousands of blogs and 16 books, the single page that I receive the most positive emails about is this one: Flabbiness “You know how advice is: you only ...

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‘œEach day looks as beautiful as the roads that lead to the sea.’ – John Steinbeck ‘œBeep… beepbeepbeepbeep… BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP.’ I know instantly where I am. It is a new day. I...

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‘œI know that it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.’ – John Steinbeck ‘œBeep… beepbeepbeepbeep… BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP.�...

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‘œWhen I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch… I don’t improve; in further words, once a bum always...

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‘œBut the word timshel -‘œthou mayest’- that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open… Why, that makes a man great… He can choose ...

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‘œBetter a thousand times that he should be a tramp, and mend pots and pans by the wayside, and sleep under trees, and see the dawn and the sunset every day above a new horizon.’ – Rober...

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‘œYou can boast about anything if it’™s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.’ – John Steinbeck It’™s hard to get my head round the idea of a...

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You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.’ – John Steinbeck Doing somethin...

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‘œI have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory or slobbed for a tim...

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‘œIf one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely...

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‘œWe are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be Beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow, Across that angry or that glimmering sea.’ – James Elroy Fle...

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‘œI have no bent towards gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul.’ – John Steinbeck Religion is an integral part of India. Even my river is a goddess, ...

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‘œAnd it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.’ – John St...

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I wonder how many people I’mve looked at all my life and never seen. – John Steinbeck The people I meet are a highlight of the journey. I meet good people, kind people, funny people, mad and ...

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‘œEvery man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do ‘“ makes the journeys, reads the neglected books he always pretended to have read.’ – John ...

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