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Bruce Chatwin Quotes

As you go along, you literally collect places. I’m fed up with going to places; I shan’t go to anymore Picture Quote #1

It’s an old sailor’s idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home Picture Quote #1

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R’s - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains Picture Quote #1

And when you look along the way we’ve come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling Picture Quote #1

I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed’s dictum, ‘A journey is a fragment of Hell.’ Picture Quote #1

I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other God Picture Quote #1

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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land Picture Quote #1

For life is a journey through a wilderness Picture Quote #1

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin Picture Quote #1

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity Picture Quote #1

Travel doesn’t merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind Picture Quote #1

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world Picture Quote #1

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Anything was better than to be loved for one’s things Picture Quote #1

The song and the land are one Picture Quote #1

Because they knew each other’s thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking Picture Quote #1

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work Picture Quote #1

As you go along, you literally collect places. I’m fed up with going to places; I shan’t go to anymore Picture Quote #1

When people start talking of man’s inhumanity to man it means they haven’t actually walked far enough Picture Quote #1

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I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up Picture Quote #1

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As you go along, you literally collect places. I’m fed up with going to places; I shan’t go to anymore. (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) It’s an old sailor’s idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home. (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R’s - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains. (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) And when you look along the way we’ve come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed’s dictum, ‘A journey is a fragment of Hell.’ (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other God (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) For life is a journey through a wilderness (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Travel doesn’t merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Anything was better than to be loved for one’s things (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) The song and the land are one (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) Because they knew each other’s thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) As you go along, you literally collect places. I’m fed up with going to places; I shan’t go to anymore (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) When people start talking of man’s inhumanity to man it means they haven’t actually walked far enough (Bruce Chatwin Quotes) I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up (Bruce Chatwin Quotes)