You can take a book on a trip around the world or stay home and let the book take you.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The woman on the end bench had a paperback and a suitcase today, and she read four pages in an hour while the rest of her watched the bus stop. For years I thought the traveling was the thing and the reading was what you did between trains. She looked up every time the air brakes hissed. You can take a book on a trip around the world or stay home and let the book take you, and I am not sure she managed either one, sitting there with both of them going at once. Switch says she was waiting for someone, which would explain the looking up, though not the book. I have flown four hundred miles in a season and could not tell you one thing about the middle of it.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- It’s not the evidence you find that matters, but the evidence you find inconvenient.
- Leap to a conclusion and you usually fall short.
- When you are not sure where you are going, you are more likely to keep your eyes open.
- It takes humility to accept the aging of the body and grace to welcome it.
- A closed door has one position; an open door, many.
- The wise welcome confusion as a bridge to understanding.