Vicarious Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the words vicarious and/or ordinary:

“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)