Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Places Quotes
Ever since Mexico, the description, ‘formerly an important Spanish city, famous for its architecture’ made me stiffen in apprehension, but no city had fallen as far as Lima. Like a violated tomb in which only the sorry mummy of a withered nationalism was left, and just enough religion to console a patient multitude with the […]
Some men are all right in their places – if they only knew the right places!
On the top of Corcovado, a gigantic statue of Jesus, with outstretched arms, dominates the picture. (‘Never has Christ blessed a happier and more lovable brothel,’ as the local saying has it.)
(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.
I was disappointed in Niagara-most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Rio is not a sexy town; it is a copulating town… Going to bed with women is almost a national hobby with Brazilians; it is rather like cricket in England.
Terrible Tragedy in the South Seas. Three million people trapped alive! (apocryphal newspaper headline, New Zealand Listener, April 1979)
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his […]
