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When the going gets weird the weird turn pro...

In 1992 Mark Eveleigh spent six hours reviewing his life while swinging from the end of a fraying cable in the world?s highest cable-car, in Venezuela. The psychological shock of this experience was enough to send him plummeting down the slippery slope into the shadowy world of freelance photojournalism.

Although he has been described by Maxim magazine as 'a borderline insane modern-day explorer,' Mark prides himself on being a clear-sighted and versatile journalist. Undercover news assignments have taken him from besieged Zimbabwean farms to high-security Bolivian prisons, but charging African elephants, Spanish fighting bulls and a randy Peruvian llama have taught him the real importance of 'journalistic footwork.'

He is also founder of THE WIDEANGLE photo agency - WWW.THEWIDEANGLE.COM

Published stories at www.WorldWiseWanderer.com

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COOL QUOTES

JUST A FEW OF THE WORLD'S MOST INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON TRAVELLING DAYS, 'LIBERTINE WAYS' AND...:

'For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I?ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.'
- John Steinbeck

Interviewer: "and how do you define guts?"
Hemingway: "Grace under pressure."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
- Ernest Hemingway, Men at War

'The little death' the ancestors called it. Was that Hemingway? Did you feel the earth move? Yes guapa. Truly? Yes, truly. You old bewitcher, you seduced a generation.
- Evan Hunter on Hemingway - in The Paper Dragon.

'May you wander over the face of the earth forever,
Never sleep twice in the same bed,
Never drink water twice from the same well,
And never cross the same river twice in a year.' - Gypsy Curse [or blessing?]

'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.'
- Mark Twain.

'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'
- Oscar Wilde

'To do is to be.' - Descartes
'To be is to do.' - Jean-Paul Sartre
'Doo-be-doo-be-doo.' - Frank Sinatra

'I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.'
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

'We're really all of us bottomly broke - I haven't had time to work in weeks.'
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"64,928" - Neal Cassidy's last words

'We give names to things we fear. That's why people have two names.'
- Alessandro Baricco

'He travels fastest who travels alone.'
- Rudyard Kipling (The Winners)

'Until you get a certifiable appalling wound on a trip, you feel you haven't earned your right to exist.'
- Redmond O'Hanlon (interview in Escape Mag)

'It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.'
- Franz Kafka

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...MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD

'The man who cannot find time for recreation will someday be forced to find time for illness.'
- Anon

'Every dagger must someday find sheath?or shoulder blade.'
- Anon

'He who dies with the most experiences wins.'
- Anon

'I just can't seem to grasp the corporate mentality.'
- Anon

'Beaten paths are for beaten men.'
- Anon

'Don't dream your life?live your dreams.'
- Anon

?Illusion is not always what it seems.' (seen written in the dust on a Ford Cortina in Notting Hill).

'If your life were a movie would anybody want to watch it.'
- seen on a T-shirt in Borneo

'Hello. I love you. I?m sorry. Goodbye.'
- seen on a T-shirt in Borneo

'I've been rich an' I've been poor. Poor Sucks!'
- a mate of my dad

'Your love of the halflings' weed has clearly slowed your mind.' (Saruman to Gandalf, film of Lord of the Rings)

'Let them come. There is still one dwarf in Moria who draws blood!' (Gimli in film of Lord of the Rings)