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> [But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/but-for-a-little-while-this-is-the-place-for-us-a-good-place-too-a/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

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## More by Beryl Markham

> [I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/i-have-lifted-my-plane-for-perhaps-a-thousand-flights-and-i-have/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [“(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/quoting-her-friend-tom-black-on-an-amateur-hunter-s-injury-lion/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-only-disadvantage-in-surviving-a-dangerous-experience-lies-in-the/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/all-this-and-discontent-too-otherwise-why-am-i-sitting-here-dreaming/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/we-swung-over-the-hills-and-over-the-town-and-back-again-and-i-saw/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [there are many Africas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-many-africas/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/talk-lives-in-a-man-s-head-but-sometimes-it-is-very-lonely-because-in/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-is-a-certain-silence-that-can-emanate-from-a-lifeless-object-as/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [ \[The lion\] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-lion-began-to-contemplate-me-with-a-kind-of-quiet-premeditation/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/from-the-time-i-arrived-in-british-east-africa-at-the-indifferent-age/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/but-for-a-little-while-this-is-the-place-for-us-a-good-place-too-a/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-all-kinds-of-silences-and-each-of-them-means-a-different/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-as-many-africas-as-there-are-books-about-africa-and-as-many/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-s-an-old-adage-he-said-translated-from-the-ancient-coptic-that/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

> [The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-way-to-find-a-needle-in-a-haystack-is-to-sit-down/)

[Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/)

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