Quotes by Jan Morris

Jan Morris

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Kashmir

Mind

Quality

Leningrad … is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Cities

Leningrad

Russia

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

Cities

Essence

Skills

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

Ideas

Jobs

Tired

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

Canada

Genius

Remains

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.

Country

Hate

Past

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Becoming

Bottles

Car

the personality of St. John’s, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Canada

Faces

Personality

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster’s guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

Dog

Running

Travel

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

Cities

Mountain

Vegas

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Adults

Adventure

Affair

Anarchist

Australia

Authority

Beautiful

Becoming

Believe

Body

Book

Bottles

Canada

Car

Cherish

Cities

Citizens

Country

Curves

Deodorant

Design

Devil

Differences

Dog

Domes

Doubt

Ends

Essence

Europe

Expectations

Faces

Facts

Factual

Forever

Fun

Gender

Genius

Giving

Greed

Half

Hands

Hate

Home

House

Ideas

Impossible

Jobs

Judging

Justice

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Quotes by Jan Morris

Jan Morris

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Leningrad … is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

the personality of St. John’s, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster’s guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

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