"There are only two rules. One is E.……" — Jan Morris
"There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city."
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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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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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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 Aimlessly Quotes
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To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering…
— Julian Huxley
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Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation…
— Unknown Author
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Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything…
— Robert Pattinson
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Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is…
— Tal Ben-Shahar
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You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been…
— Rumi
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the…
— Tom Robbins
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First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass…
— Og Mandino
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may…
— B. C. Forbes
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this…
— Bill W.
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I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God…
— Joseph McCabe
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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he…
— Kenneth Grahame
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