"Anything was better than to be loved for…" — Bruce Chatwin
"Anything was better than to be loved for one's things."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site.
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The song and the land are one.
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.
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I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the…
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
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Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of…
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When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our…
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the…
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I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in…
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