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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 1d

“However wracked by human folly, Colombia’s mountains, rivers and jungles are a source of inspiration to anyone who lives among them. Their sheer abundance is an affirmation of life at its most elemental…”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#quote #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 3d

“Until those hopes are realised, it will continue to simmer with accumulated frustration and resentment.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #hopes

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 4d

“While it was often sad and always sentimental, it had no room for existential angst.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #angst #existentialism #sentimental

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 5d

“The faithful sat or stood all over the cemetery, listening attentively. When an old woman took to the microphone and began to sing a plaintive fold song, they sang along.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquote #writersky #travel #explore #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 6d

“I woke up and tried to get my bearings. I was lying in bed in a windowless room, lit by a fluorescent strip on the ceiling.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 9d

“The FARC, the Army and the politicians all claim Bolívar as their own. Indeed, listening to their high-flown rhetoric, I was often hard pressed to tell them apart.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity #Bolívar

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 10d

“Behind every sophisticated, culturally sensitive foreigner, Carmen seemed to suggest, lurked a libertino — a narco tourist — who was only there for the cheap cocaine.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity #write

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 11d

“Lengerke died broke and broken by the land he had come to call home. His vision and dedication had come to nothing, ‘but it is beautiful and it seems it cannot be otherwise.’”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 12d

“‘Mortality,’ she said to me, ‘like everything else, is just a matter of time.’”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #nonfiction #wisdom #mortality

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 13d

“It was a sad song, which he wrapped up with the line ‘mi caballito es mi mejor compañero' — my little horse is my best friend.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #nonfiction

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 16d

“The present, it seems, demands their undivided attention.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 17d

“There was no sign of human life to appeal to: no mountain huts or roads; no dogs; not even a telegraph wire to follow.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 18d

“I had the giddy feeling of being in an airport terminal, a secured bubble of globalised good taste, divorced from any indication of where on the planet I was.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 19d

“I had the feeling that her beauty was a deliberate ploy to distract viewers like me, who knew that the news was important, but found their coverage rather boring.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 20d

“My abiding memory of Bogotá had been of a city rendered pin-sharp by blazing Andean sunshine. In my fondness I’d forgotten how cold and damp the capital could get.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 23d

“‘They don’t know how to bake bread properly anywhere, and in winter they freeze like mice in a cellar…’”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #Dostoyevsky #classicliterature #theidiot #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #vintage

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 24d

“Even when he talked about the shade, he seemed to be trying to say something else, in spite of all the expansiveness of his narrative.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #classicliterature #art #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 25d

“So it turned out what they needed to do was calm themselves, look on the matter coolly, and wait. But alas, the calm did not last even ten minutes.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #classicliterature #art #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 26d

“‘Yes, this is my home. Where else would I be?’”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #Dostoyevsky #classicliterature #theidiot #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #vintage #wit

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 27d

"He began to stamp his feet at her. But this time she merely burst out laughing.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #Dostoyevsky #classicliterature #theidiot #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #vintage

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Sep 19

“You have no inkling of the caprices human vanity is capable of…”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #Dostoyevsky #classicliterature #theidiot #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #vintage

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Sep 18

“What was occurring at that very moment was what he had dreamed of these last two months only at nights, in the form of a nightmare that froze him with horror and burned him with shame…”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquote #booksky #art #writersky

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Sep 17

“It was clear that he had said this with no calculation, no particular intention, no thought, at the first prompting; but his words produced an extraordinary effect.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #classicliterature #writersky

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Sep 16

“If one got near him there was a slight smell of vodka; but his manner was calculated for effect, slightly studied and with an obvious fervent desire to impress by his dignity.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #classicliterature

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Sep 15

“All these concessions to fate and all this annoying crowdedness — these were deep spiritual wounds for him.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

#bookquotes #booksky #art #Dostoyevsky #classicliterature #theidiot #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #vintage

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