If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

James A. Michener

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Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

Italo Calvino

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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

G.K. Chesterton

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Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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What was on the other side?"
Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it."
"He... never went through it?"
"That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.

Philip K. Dick

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[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

James Robertson

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And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, "go.

Frances Mayes

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