"I had reached the conclusion myself that sex……" — Jan Morris
"I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena."
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20 Quotes by Jan Morris
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides…
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity…
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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…
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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment…
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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the…
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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More Almost Nobody Quotes
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America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost…
— Hugo Chavez
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Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd…
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical,…
— John Stott
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The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two…
— Michael Crichton
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
— Jane Jacobs
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that…
— Paul Davies
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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
— H P Lovecraft
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Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost…
— Kiran Desai
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people…
— Kevin Brownlow
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Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling…
— Paul Bloom
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I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody…
— Dileep Rao
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