[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.
poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs. - Dervla Murphy
poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.
- Dervla Murphy
... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures. - Dervla Murphy
... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.
Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spread… - Dervla Murphy
Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spread…
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. - Dervla Murphy
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personali… - Dervla Murphy
... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personali…
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. - Dervla Murphy
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. - Dervla Murphy
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. - Dervla Murphy
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simp… - Dervla Murphy
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simp…
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