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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 21, 2009 - 11:48pm PT
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I often come across quotes that really strike me - and I like to share them.
So here's one I came across today
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth". Ludwig Borne
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Oct 21, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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"I may live poorly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."
-unemployed guy in the movie Slacker
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:19am PT
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^^^^on a similar note, i have lived in san francisco, anchorage, and on maui, three places that are known to be expensive.
i've been asked how did i afford the cost of living? my pat answer; "hey, the cost of doing without is the same wherever you go"
seen on the back of a hippie'ed up school bus..."follow me to your place"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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this one struck me recently...
...emotions whipsawed, feeling like approaching a harlot,
lust and angst drawing you along... -Tom Higgins
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:32am PT
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"It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain
"It's hard to be subtle with a chainsaw." photography student to his teacher.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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Speaking of Mark Twain,
"A cynic is someone who sees things the way they really are."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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two cheers for Twain; those are both keepers.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
slowly dying in the OC
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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"Trust luck, borrow trouble, and never ask the price!'
Ian Skies Walker
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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around '91 we were getting our asses handed to us on the Sherman Glacier route on Rainer. Stuck in a tent for two days in a horrendous storm.
Two dudes were stuck on the summit in the same storm. The weather cleared briefly and dudes were able to descend. My buddy ran into them in base camp ( I was still ascending with another team).
One dude offered to Dave "You only live once and if you die young, well, that sucks".
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Ray Olson
Trad climber
Imperial Beach, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 03:31am PT
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"The creator of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandelous:
novelty disturbs and repels"
Simone de Beauvoir
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:17am PT
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"I never could explain why
I love anybody or anything"
Walt Whitman
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:23am PT
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"If climbers didn't die, climbing would."
John Barry
"An adventure is interesting enough in retrospect, especially to the person that didn't have it; at the time it happens it usually constitutes an exceedingly disagreeable experience."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"Three constitutes a large expedition, a party of one may be considered a small expedition."
Dr. Humphreys
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:39am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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(When I asked him to be careful downclimbing unanchored)
"I've lived a long and happy life."
Mike Baca, Oct. 17, 2009
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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"Now wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same!" - Savoy Brown
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JNB
Big Wall climber
Northridge
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:18am PT
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"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:20am PT
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"Qui vit sans folie n’est pas aussi sage qu’il croit."
"He who lives without madness is not as wise as he believes."
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:29am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan ^^^^thankyou norton, i'll take it, he can spare it
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