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The song and the land are one.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Wise
Land
Song
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Journey
Fragments
Hell
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Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Chamber
Echoes
Tyranny
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For life is a journey through a wilderness
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Journey
Life Is
Life Is A Journey
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Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
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Journey
Travel
Hiking
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Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
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Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.
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Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Memories
Way
World
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Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Australia
Feelings
Giving
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And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Men
Humanity
Problem
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Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.
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And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Looks
Spirals
Way
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To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Notebook
Catastrophe
Passports
Worry
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Aggressive
Animal Kingdom
Biology
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Believe
Fantastic
Real
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Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Journey
Home
Men
Real
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When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Men
Mean
Talking
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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 / Novelist
Fed Up
Feds
Collect
Fed
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I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Ceramics
Chinese
Sculpture
African
French
Impressionist
Scanty
Sculptures
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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 / Novelist
Home
Bows
Ideas
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Childhood
Proust
Raw Materials
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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 / Novelist
Journey
Morning
Fog
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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.
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May
Stories
Writing
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'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Travel
Country
Yugoslavia
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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.
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Book
Fire
Wall
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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 / Novelist
Journey
Blue
Night
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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Journey
Travel
Afterlife
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?
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Running
Book
Children
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A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Journey
Als
Way
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Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Children
Distance
Forever
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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."
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Children
Country
Mother
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
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Home
Men
Desert
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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 / Novelist
Curtains
Desolation
Disillusion
Exile
Five
Lace
Taken
Among
Behind
Directory
Telephone
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.
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Rivers
White
Wind
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Journey
Animal
Fall
Gentleman
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