Jan Morris Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. October 2, 1926
Birthday: October 2
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.
source: Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber
topic: Hands, Oysters, Cities, Brics
