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JeffreyTayler1

@jeffreytayler1

Former contributing editor at The Atlantic. Author of 8 books, including Facing the Congo and Salvation in the Desert. Co-author of In Putin's Footsteps.

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"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time." ~ Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath” 📷 with Ted Hughes

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."
     ~ Sylvia Plath, 

from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”

📷 with Ted Hughes
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In the Moroccan Sahara. My guide and friend, Ali Daimin, and our cameleer and cook, Mouloud, just as we were preparing to set out from M'Hamid for Foum Zguid.

In the Moroccan Sahara.  

My guide and friend, Ali Daimin, and our cameleer and cook, Mouloud, just as we were preparing to set out from M'Hamid for Foum Zguid.
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"Most people cannot bear sitting in church for an hour on a Sunday. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for an eternity?" – Mark Twain

"Most people cannot bear sitting in church for an hour on a Sunday. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for an eternity?"

– Mark Twain
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"We have a deficit of wonder. I think it’s because of computers. When I ask people questions now, they get on their computer – `Gimme a few minutes and I’ll let you know….’ And I’m, like, ‘Nooooo!’ I want them to wonder about it, man! I don’t want to know the answer. I just want

"We have a deficit of wonder. I think it’s because of computers. When I ask people questions now, they get on their computer – `Gimme a few minutes and I’ll let you know….’ And I’m, like, ‘Nooooo!’ I want them to wonder about it, man! I don’t want to know the answer. I just want
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We lost the great Hunter S. Thompson on this day 20 years ago. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and

We lost the great Hunter S. Thompson on this day 20 years ago. 

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and
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“The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this, makes man seem important, vital to the universe, immortal in some ways.” ~ Ernest Becker

“The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this, makes man seem important, vital to the universe, immortal in some ways.” 

~ Ernest Becker
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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." ― Patti Smith

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In 2006, I biked India's Grand Trunk Road for Men's Journal, from Amritsar on the border with Pakistan, to Calcutta, its terminus. I stopped and probably overnighted in the town below. How I ended up in this SUV I do not recall, nor do I remember which town this was.

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"Je ne pense pas tant à la vieillesse. Je n’ai jamais cru que l’âge soit un critère valable. Il y a cinquante ans, je ne me sentais pas particulièrement jeune, et aujourd’hui, je ne me sens pas vieille. Mon âge change d’heure en heure. Dans les instants de fatigue, j’ai mille

"Je ne pense pas tant à la vieillesse. Je n’ai jamais cru que l’âge soit un critère valable.
Il y a cinquante ans, je ne me sentais pas particulièrement jeune,
et aujourd’hui, je ne me sens pas vieille.
Mon âge change d’heure en heure.

Dans les instants de fatigue, j’ai mille
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Bill Murray talks about the painting that stopped him from taking his life after being asked if there were a moment how art has made a difference in his life. Watch til the end to see the painting.