Frank Smythe quotes
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“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.”
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“In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.”
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“It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.”
-- Frank Smythe
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.”
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Source : "Unlikely Stories, Mostly". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1983.
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