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I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris

The tragedy of the Soviet Union was that it marked the decline of an ideological empire. The British Empire really had no ideology, except one that had evolved by a kind of rule of thumb, changing as it went along.

Jan Morris

A sex change is a very extraordinary thing for someone to have gone through and particularly extraordinary for a writer, I think. But although... the effects of it appear kind of subliminally through everything I've written, I don't believe I've created a work of art around it.

Jan Morris