"The song and the land are one." — Bruce Chatwin

"The song and the land are one."

— Bruce Chatwin

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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin

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

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…
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in…

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More Inspirational Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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