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I would set my course that instant not for the nearest but the farthest star.
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Webb Chiles (STORM PASSAGE: Alone Around Cape Horn)
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What matters is action. Not to think about writing, but to write. Not to think about sailing, but to sail. Not to think about loving, but to love.
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Webb Chiles (The Open Boat: Across the Pacific (The Open Boat Voyage))
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People don't believe it, but solo sailing actually is quite restful.
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Webb Chiles (The Open Boat: Across the Pacific (The Open Boat Voyage))
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In my view, life is divided into three parts. Youth is longing. Maturity is being. Old age is remembering.
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Webb Chiles (The Ocean Waits (The Open Boat))
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The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.
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Webb Chiles (The Ocean Waits (The Open Boat))
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If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.
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Webb Chiles (THE FIFTH CIRCLE: the passage log)