Robyn Davidson Quotes

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Robyn Davidson

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 6, 1950

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

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Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

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Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

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The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

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That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

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I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

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The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

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I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

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Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

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In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

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The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

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I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

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As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

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Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

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You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

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The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

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That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

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Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

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I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

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