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Jan Morris Quotes

Jan Morris quotes

English Writer October 2, 1926

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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten. Jan Morris
Jan Morris quote: "Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic."
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. Jan Morris
Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life. Jan Morris
In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. “You should not laugh at them,” he said. “They are beautiful to each other. Jan Morris
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. Jan Morris
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.... Jan Morris
Jan Morris quote: "Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that..."
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasureof a library lies in its very existence. Jan Morris
Jan Morris quote: "Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound."
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. Jan Morris
Jan Morris quote: "To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon,..."
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. 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. Jan Morris
Jan Morris quote: "A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand."
A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. Jan Morris

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