Tim Cahill (writer) Quotes

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When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Tim Cahill

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

Tim Cahill

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

Tim Cahill

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill

Born: 1944 (age 75)

Bio: Tim Cahill is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an Editor at Large for the magazine.

Known for:

Jaguars ripped my flesh (1987)
Road fever (1990)
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg (1989)
Hold the enlightenment (2002)

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