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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.
Jan Morris
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
Jan Morris
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
Jan Morris
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
...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?
Jan Morris
Jan Morris
Occupation:
Welsh Historian
Born:
October 2, 1926
Died:
November 20, 2020
Quotes count:
6
Wikipedia:
Jan Morris
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