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Letter "J" » Jan Morris Quotes
«Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence»
«[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.»
Author: Jan Morris
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Travel
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Better To Travel, citizen, deodorant, diet, dieting, diets, fiber, fibers, Good Time, high time, respecting, self-respecting, undertake, undertook
«To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .»
Author: 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.»
«Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic»
«To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.»
«Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.»
Author: Jan Morris
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smallness
«I told him everything and it was from him that I learned what my future would be.»
Author: Jan Morris
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Future
«There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.»
Author: Jan Morris
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Carmen, curls, flounce, flounces, intrigue, junction, skirts, speculation, toss
«Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming.»
Author: Jan Morris
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brash, burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, delectable, Israeli, Israelis, latitude, latitudes, lounge, lounging, modernity
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