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Mountain Quotes
On the climb, the summit, and never quite arriving.
Mountains show up here both literally, as something to train for and climb, and as a stand-in for any goal that keeps receding the closer you get to it. A few lines treat the summit as a place of quiet rather than conquest. See Climb quotes for more on the ascent itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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- Nov 07, 2020