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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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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
— Buffalo Bill
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I…
— David Bowie
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Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget…
— Joyce Brothers
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
— Tori Amos
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!…
— John Bunyan
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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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…
— Jan Morris
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Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.
— Herman Cain
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the…
— Louis Pasteur
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
— Sydney J. Harris
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
— Karl Marx
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