"I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to……" — Bruce Chatwin
"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 peoples and all the countries in the world."
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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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Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
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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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More Adventurer Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
— Joseph Conrad
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
— H. Rider Haggard
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the…
— Jean Batten
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with…
— Pearl S. Buck
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