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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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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and…
— John of the Cross
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Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this…
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If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many…
— John Welwood
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The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
— Nik Wallenda
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[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at…
— Unknown Author
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
— Jan Morris
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live…
— Oscar Wilde
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I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much.…
— Robert Sheckley
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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things,…
— Pliny the Elder
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