Jan Morris quotes

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. (Jan Morris)
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. View quote
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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. View quote
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. View quote
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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. View quote
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...I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I believe in its imaginative qualities and its potential as art and literature. I must say that my campaign, which I've been waging for ages now, has borne some fruit because intelligent bookshops nowadays do have a stack called something like travel literature. But what word does one use? View quote
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