Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Quote: Jan Morris ...
"But as to the spirit of the place, I have several rules: One is to grin like a dog and run about the city. Another thing is from E.M. Forster, who wrote an alleged guidebook to Alexandria. He said the way to look at Alexandria is to wander aimlessly around and to have all your antennae out in all directions so that nothing, absolutely nothing, is uninteresting."
-- from an interview, in A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, 2004
-- from an interview, in A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, 2004
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Quote: James Fenimore Cooper ...
"On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity."
-- from The Deerslayer, 1841
-- from The Deerslayer, 1841
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Quote: Theodore Dreiser ...
"To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights."
-- from Sister Carrie, 1900
-- from Sister Carrie, 1900
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Quote: Charles Dickens ...
"It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning."
-- from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844
-- from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844
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