Quotes
Authors
Beryl Markham

"Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull."

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

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“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.”
“The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.”
“I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.”
“It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.”
“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

Source : Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”
“You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.”
“Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.”
“The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.”

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