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I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
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The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
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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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I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity
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And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.
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Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
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If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
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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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I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.
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When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.
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By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
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I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.
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Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.
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I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.
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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
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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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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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You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.
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My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
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I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
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I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.
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After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.
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The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
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Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.
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It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring
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I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.
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I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
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Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.
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The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
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One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them.
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London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!
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Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.
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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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As you get older, you do just get tired.
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I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So
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Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it ...
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The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.
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When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.
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You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
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Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.'
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Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
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I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump ... and pray.
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And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
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My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
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Desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels, ...
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I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.
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