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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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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning…
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or…
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There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to…
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