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It is really this that makes death so hard - curiosity unsatisfied. — Beryl Markham

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. — Beryl Markham

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it. — Beryl Markham

There is respect for a heart like yours, and if its beating stop, the spirit lives to guard the ways you wandered. — Beryl Markham

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? — Beryl Markham

To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything. — Beryl Markham

It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it. — Beryl Markham

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury
Lion, rifles
and stupidity. — Beryl Markham

How is it possible to bring order out of memory? — Beryl Markham

Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth. — Beryl Markham

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. — Beryl Markham

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound. — Beryl Markham

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. — Beryl Markham

That's what makes death so hard
unsatisfied curiosity — Beryl Markham

A lovely horse is always an experience ... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. — Beryl Markham

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women. — Beryl Markham

An experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger. — Beryl Markham

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. — Beryl Markham

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. — Beryl Markham

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it. — Beryl Markham

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, — Beryl Markham

I have a trunk containing continents. — Beryl Markham

Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart. — Beryl Markham

A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not ...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand. — Beryl Markham

A domesticated lion is only an unnatural lion - and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy. — Beryl Markham

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will ... — Beryl Markham

There are many Africas. — Beryl Markham

We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young. — Beryl Markham

All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. — Beryl Markham

[I]t is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. — Beryl Markham

The character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly. — Beryl Markham

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. — Beryl Markham

A fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette - or both? — Beryl Markham

(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof. — Beryl Markham

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. — Beryl Markham

(On vultures
... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ... — Beryl Markham

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent. — Beryl Markham

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy. — Beryl Markham

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth. — Beryl Markham

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work — Beryl Markham

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny — Beryl Markham

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham

Success breeds confidence. — Beryl Markham

The sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. — Beryl Markham

A life has to move or it stagnates. — Beryl Markham

Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic. — Beryl Markham