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

Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)

The personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

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

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

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

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people

This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

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

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand.