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“Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.”

Quote by Dervla Murphy

Book:South From the Limpopo

Work

South From the Limpopo

This book offers a firsthand account of the author's exploration of the diverse landscapes and cultures encountered in the Limpopo region of Africa, highlighting the natural beauty and cultural richness of the area. more

Author

Dervla Murphy, born on November 28, 1931, is an Irish cyclist and travel writer, renowned for her adventurous bicycle journeys across Africa, Asia, and South America. more

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Thinking Children Feelings Artist Behinds Childhood Style Dislike Courtesy Incomplete Analogies Thoughts And Feelings Reticence

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“one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?”

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“It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”

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Book:Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir

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“The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”

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Author:Dervla Murphy

“poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.”

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Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

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“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”

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“Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!”

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Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

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