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Jan Morris has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are…
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very…
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There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander…
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I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one…
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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
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I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel…
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The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be…
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I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate…
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles…
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It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more…
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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction…
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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of…
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
— Milan Kundera
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Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones…
— Edwin Markham
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could…
— Lorenz Hart
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic…
— Hillary Clinton
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You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
— Dick Vitale
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If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium
— Joe Flacco
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The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither…
— Eero Saarinen
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Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall…
— Sappho
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The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after…
— Kalpana Chawla
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