Colin Thubron Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken”
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“Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...”
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“A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.”
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“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.”
-- Colin Thubron
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