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The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

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I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

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Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

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As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

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I was three or four when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl.

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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

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Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

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Like most writers, I think far too much about myself anyway, and in my heart of hearts don't think I am worth talking about in this way.

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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I believe in its imaginative qualities and its potential as art and literature.

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The personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

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Say farewell to the trumpets!
You will hear them no more.
But their sweet sad silvery echoes
Will call to you still
Through the half-closed door.

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I began to see that my imperial cockiness was nonsense and that the empire, in its last years at least, wasn't a bit arrogant, it wasn't a bit cocky.

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I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

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I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

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Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

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The British had been absolutely shattered by two world wars. The first one left the empire physically larger than ever before. The second one was an obvious death knell for it.

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Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's?... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

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