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“Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.”
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
“And suddenly I realise that civilisation is suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency because it cannot draw its strength directly from nature, eternally young and eternally true. Humanity has lost itself in the unnatural and in speculation. Only now do I grasp the real meaning and the world-transforming element in the saying: “Become as the peasants, understand the sacredness of the earth.”
― A Woman in the Polar Night
― A Woman in the Polar Night
“The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.”
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
“The whole length of Nyhavn was lined with outdoor tables, with young, blond, gorgeous people drinking, eating and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. I always wonder in Copenhagen what they do with their old people – they must put them in cellars or send them to Arizona – because everyone, without exception, is youthful, fresh-scrubbed, healthy, blond and immensely good-looking. You could cast a Pepsi commercial in Copenhagen in fifteen seconds. And they all look so happy.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, hesitating at street corners to decide whether that cheerful and homy restaurant you will remember fondly for years is likely to lie down this street or that one? I just love it. I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
William’s 2025 Year in Books
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