Bill Barich quotes
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“Travel spoils you for regular life.”
-- Bill BarichSource : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.”
-- Bill BarichSource : Bill Barich (2015). “Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack”, p.211, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.”
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“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.”
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“H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.”
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“A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.”
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“I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.”
-- Bill BarichSource : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.188, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”
Source : Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”
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“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”
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“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.104, Gallic Books
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“I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.”
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“Do not spoil the wonder with haste!”
Source : "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".
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“I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.”
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“Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.”
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