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  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
  • Beryl Markham Quote - It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.

Beryl Markham

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    To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility.

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    The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

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    What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend.

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    I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

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    When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

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    This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets – and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

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    After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

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    A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not… I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

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    Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin’s lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it.

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    It is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

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    You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

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    The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

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    A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

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    Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations.

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    Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

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