Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. Freya Stark More Quotes by Freya Stark More Quotes From Freya Stark Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future. Freya Stark crackspeoplepast Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. Freya Stark zeromaymanners The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room. Freya Stark simpleroomsworld I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. Freya Stark our-wordslongbelieve The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Freya Stark untruthfulnessadvertisingart Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it. Freya Stark practicedoeorder The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him. Freya Stark usualdoubtcomfort The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows. Freya Stark fundamentalswishart The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is. Freya Stark judgingdoorspeople The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war. Freya Stark pacifistsubstituteswar I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration. Freya Stark bodyagethinking One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. Freya Stark nuisanceluckdone Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world. Freya Stark technologyanimalthinking Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Freya Stark circlessoulrace Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. Freya Stark bornseamen Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. Freya Stark journeytravelart The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. Freya Stark womenstupidlove The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. Freya Stark silenceseatravel The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. Freya Stark unexpectednesswisewaiting I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving Freya Stark receivingmindpeople
