I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I… — Dervla Murphy Appetite Copy Share Image
“Certainly nobody in the large grubby restaurant 'wanted to know'. My two fellow-diners were truck drivers being eyed hopefully by five adolescent… — Dervla Murphy Truck Drivers Copy Share Image
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I… — Dervla Murphy Adopted Copy Share Image
To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer.… — Dervla Murphy Baffled Copy Share Image
“There has been a sustained and dreadfully successful campaign to make most people dissatisfied with what I would call the normal life… — Dervla Murphy Life Copy Share Image
Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as… — Dervla Murphy Consuming Copy Share Image
