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• As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

  Jan Morris

  Sex, Pleasure, Gender

  Jan Morris (1989). “Pleasures of a tangled life”, Vintage

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• Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!

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  Nice, Giving, Judging

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

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  Mystic

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.324, Faber & Faber

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

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  Curves, Lines, Facts

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• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

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  Fun, Moving, Home

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• Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

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  Russia, Cities, Leningrad

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

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  Sex, Males, Body

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever.

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  Home, House, Forever

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• 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.

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  Country, Hate, Past

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

  Jan Morris (2009). “Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere”, p.14, Da Capo Press

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• To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

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  Students, Impossible, Affair

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• 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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  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

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  Country, Australia, Expectations

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.

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  Land, Differences, People

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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