Alfred Lansing Quotes

#1. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

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#2. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

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#3. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

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#4. The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas ... and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

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#5. Of all their enemies
the cold, the ice, the sea
he feared none more than demoralization.

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#6. In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

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#7. It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it

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#8. Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.

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#9. In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.

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#10. This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe - and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

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