"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin."

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Source : Bruce Chatwin (1990). “What Am I Doing Here?”, p.103, Penguin

Bruce Chatwin

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“Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.”
“Age is merely a suit, and not a new dress.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.”
“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [ in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.”
“Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.”
“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House
“Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.”

Source : "Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia". Book by Boris Schwarz, p. 115, 1972.
“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.”

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