"I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation,……" — Jan Morris
"I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity."
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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 had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether…
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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
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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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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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