"To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is……" — Jan Morris
"To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible."
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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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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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More Affair Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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