Bruce Chatwin Quotes

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• The song and the land are one.
• A journey is a fragment of Hell.
• I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the…
• If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert -…
• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during…
• I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the…
• Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
• When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
• Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I…
• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country:…
• I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western…
• Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.
• Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.
• I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the…
• And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.
• For life is a journey through a wilderness
• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
• The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has…

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