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Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.
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It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.
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Poetry is a kind of attentiveness that permits one both the organized adventure of the nomad and the armchair security of the bank teller, a way of dabbling without being a dilettante.
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People often ask me where they might go to find adventure. Adventure is not something you must travel to find, I tell them, it's something you take with you.
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
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October 7, 1948
(age 76)
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