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As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

~Bruce Chatwin

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I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

~Bruce Chatwin

Topics: About African Chinese French Impressionist Knowledge Learned Sculptures

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The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

~Bruce Chatwin

Topics: Among Anxiety Behind Curtains Desolation Exile Five History Lace Names Random Rose Story Taken Telephone The History Of Written

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 13th, 1940

Died: January 18th, 1989

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