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She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed along the wilder shores of love. For her, each new affair was an encampment set up along the way; sometimes a palace, sometimes a tent, but always the supreme refuge.

Lesley Blanch

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Lesley Blanch

Lesley Blanch

Born: June 6, 1904
Died: May 6, 2007 (aged 102)
Bio: Lesley Blanch was an English writer, historian and traveller.
Known for:
  1. The Wilder Shores of Love (1954)
  2. The sabres of paradise (1960)
  3. Journey Into The Mind's Eye (1968)
  4. Pavilions of the heart (1974)
  5. The nine-tiger man (1965)

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