A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
BERYL MARKHAMYou know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.
More Beryl Markham Quotes
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color 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.
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You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself.
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Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company – and so talk goes out through the lips.
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us — a good place too–a place of good omen, a place of beginning things–and of ending things I never thought would end.
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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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There are many Africas.
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She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.
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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
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I have a trunk containing continents.
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[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves.
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There’s an old adage,” he said, “translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages — “Life is life and fun is fun, but it’s all so quiet when the goldfish die.
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Even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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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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Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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