Colin Thubron Quotes

• Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

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  Taken, Journey, Long

  Colin Thubron (2011). “To a Mountain in Tibet”, p.12, Harper Collins

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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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  Journey, Nerves, World

  Colin Thubron (2009). “Shadow of the Silk Road”, p.2, Harper Collins

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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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  Real, Past, Stories

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• The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

  Colin Thubron

  Writing, Needs, Tough

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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.

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  Dream, Adventure, Men

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