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Dervla Murphy Quotes

Poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs Picture Quote #1

The more I see of life in these ‘undeveloped countries’ and of the methods adopted to ‘improve’ them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession Picture Quote #1

The sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth Picture Quote #1

Apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare Picture Quote #1

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner Picture Quote #1

Hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater Picture Quote #1

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I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them Picture Quote #1

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Poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs (Dervla Murphy Quotes) The more I see of life in these ‘undeveloped countries’ and of the methods adopted to ‘improve’ them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession (Dervla Murphy Quotes) The sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth (Dervla Murphy Quotes) Apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare (Dervla Murphy Quotes) Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner (Dervla Murphy Quotes) Hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater (Dervla Murphy Quotes) I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them (Dervla Murphy Quotes)