14 Ted Simon Quotes on Jupiter's Travels, Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph and Seveneves - Quotes.pub

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It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

My appointment with destiny was approaching. Raj's father was getting ready to leave for his office in Patna."Come," he said. "We'll sit in the car."We sat turned towards each other, and he said:"Give me your hand."I held it out, and he grasped it as in a handshake, but held it in his grip for several moments. Then, releasing it, he gave my thumb a quick backward flip, and murmured:"Achcha!"You have a very determined soul. This also is reflected in your mind."You are Jupiter...."Why not? I thought. I like the sound of that.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

I had to come here to realise the full stature of men: here outside a grass hut, on a rough wooden bench, with no noise, no crowds, no appointments, no axe to grind, no secret to conceal, all the space and time in the world, and my heart as translucent as the glass of tea in my hand. The sense of affinity with these men is so strong that I would tear down every building in the West if I thought it would bring us together like this.

Everything in this picture I took with me, except the tires. They were sent on. And the umbrella? That was the photographer's, but eventually I did get one of my own, and it was remarkably useful. I strapped it alongside, under the saddle and over a box on my right. On the left side I carried a sword, but that's another story...

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

If the Japanese ever got a foothold, British bikes would quickly become only a nostalgic memory.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

For three days and two nights I drift up the Nile along Lake Nasser. The sunrises and sunsets are so extraordinarily beautiful that my body turns inside out and empties my heart into the sky. The stars are close enough to grasp. Lying on the roof of the ferry at night, I begin at last to know the constellations, and start a personal relationship with that particular little cluster of jewels called the Pleiades, which nestles in the sky not far from Orion's belt and sword. Really, those stars, when they come that close, you have to take them seriously.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

But it was nothing, a paper seal slipped in assembly, easily put right. You could stop the oil if you took the trouble. That was what British bikes liked, a bit of trouble. They thrived on attention, like certain people, and repaid you for it. Not a bad relationship to have.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

What happened on the way, who I met, all that was incidental. I had not quite realized that the interruptions were the journey.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

Maybe you know how it is when you have decided to do something really enormous with your life, something that stretches your resources to the limit. You can get the feeling that you are engaged in a trial of strength with the universe.

Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph Quotes

In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is awesome to think how much of it I will never see. It is not a trick to go round these days, you can pay a lot of money and fly round it nonstop in less than forty-eight hours, but to know it, to smell it and feel it between your toes you have to crawl. There is no other way. Not flying, not floating. You have to stay on the ground and swallow the bugs as you go. Then the world is immense. The best you can do is to trace your long, infinitesimally thin line through the dust and extrapolate.

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I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

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To be worth making at all, a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.

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