[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius. - Jan Morris
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.
- Jan Morris
Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation. - Jan Morris
Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.
the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry. - Jan Morris
the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.
I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness. - Jan Morris
I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. - Jan Morris
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
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 i… - Jan Morris
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 i…
As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny. - Jan Morris
As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentia… - Jan Morris
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentia…
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, e… - Jan Morris
if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, e…
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