"Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had……" — Jan Morris
"Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion."
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Jan Morris
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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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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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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 Aspiration Quotes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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