"Man's real home is not a house, but……" — Bruce Chatwin

"Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot."

— Bruce Chatwin

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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
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…
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…
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
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 Feet Quotes

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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political… — Margaret Atwood
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever… — Pearl Bailey
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. — Count Basie
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself… — Saint Basil
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always… — Jane Addams

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