#geography

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London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.


Anna Quindlen


#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

The Ridyadh Bodkin and the Kuala Lumpur Mushroom are positive Meccas for all kinds of daredevils-of this much I'm sure. Decadent Saudi princes pilot microlights through huge holes in their facades, while Malaysian spider men scale them using giant suckers in lieu of crampons. All these activities serve to demonstrate is that modernist megaliths have completely suborned the role of natural features in providing us with the essential and vertiginous perspective we require to comprehend accurately our ant-like status.


Will Self


#men

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.


Annie Dillard


#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.


Michael Ondaatje


#english

- Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.


Alessandro Baricco


#geography #africa

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dreams #geography #land #literature #literature-quotes

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.


Lee Child


#claustrophobic #crime #geography #internal #limited

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.


Hudson Stuck


#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.


Lance Loud


#class #coming #degrees #difficulty #geography

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.


Ludwig von Mises


#gives #history #nations #other #peace