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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna…
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most…
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a…
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The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed…
— Bertrand Piccard
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as…
— Paulo Freire
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not…
— Cyril Connolly
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
— William Allen White
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but…
— H. L. Mencken
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust…
— Barry McCaffrey
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,…
— Richard J. Foster
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