I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
タグ: never, water, achievement, alone

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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
タグ: find, something, nobody, future
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
タグ: go, home, you, life
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
タグ: go, home, you, life
I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
タグ: better, angry, opportunity, time
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
タグ: things, like, farmers, riding
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