Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius. - Jan Morris
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.
- 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. - 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.
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.
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, th… - Jan Morris
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, th…
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…
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.
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.
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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