Eric Shipton Quotes

#1. A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Anne Enright

#2. Whatever gave you the idea we were like everybody else?

Annie Barrows

#3. The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some

Eric Shipton

#4. Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

Eric Shipton

#5. At least this mountain world, to which I owed so much of life and happiness, would stand above the ruin of human hopes, the heritage of a saner generation of men.

Eric Shipton

#6. When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

I. J. Good

#7. He wasn't ashamed to let everyone know he didn't fuck around on Lena, that he was waiting until she was ready to have sex with her.

Jenika Snow

#8. I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

#9. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

Eric Shipton

#10. She closed her eyes and willed him to lose the power of speech. Immediately and irreversibly. "Obviously, I didn't mean - " "Well. Thank you." In the entire history of time, had willing ever worked?

Sarah MacLean

#11. Long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness - whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in

Stephan A. Hoeller