Beryl Markham Short Quotes

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Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

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No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

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Flight is just momentary escape from the eternal custody of earth.

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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

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Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

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

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The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.

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Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

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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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The sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

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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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She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained.

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In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

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All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

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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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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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I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

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If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

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Conformation... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere — in men, in horses, and in women.

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Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.

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[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

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She wore her beauty with a shrug as if it were an ermine wrap of which she could say, 'I suppose it is lovely, but then I've had it so long!'

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In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

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