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Iberia QUOTES

Iberia QUOTES

1 " For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

2 " To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

3 " like a good Spaniard he needed words as much as he needed money, and the words he wanted had to be the most expansive and inflated available. In Spain words form a kind of currency which must be spent freely, and to do this is not easy for an American, yet not to do it in Spain is to miss the spirit of human relationships. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

4 " Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

5 " From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

6 " The traveler wishing to observe Islamic Spain has his choice of two cities, Granada with its Alhambra or Córdoba with its Great Mosque (in Spanish Mezquita). Of the two former is be a considerable degree the more exciting and also the easier to absorb for its buildings, gardens and geographic settings are immediately recognizable as significant. It would take a dull man to miss the point of Granada, for its Alhambra is a museum of Islamic memories. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

7 " why not a beauty like Murcia near the Mediterranean, or Jaén in the mountains, or Oviedo, where the relics of Christ were kept? “Why Badajoz? "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

8 " the only thing in nature that moved was the sun, terrible and metallic as it inched its way across that indifferent sky. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia

9 " A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many. "

― James A. Michener , Iberia