Geoff Dyer
"I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money."
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"I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money."
"أظنني انغمست في السفر لأنه كان غريباً تماماً عن طبيعتي، ومناقضاً لميلي إلى البقاء في مكاني، فقد كان والدي يكره قضاء الإجازات، لأن أكثر ما كان يمقت في الحياة، كما ذكرت في العديد من المقالات، هو إنفاق المال. وبمجرد أن تغادر عتبة بيتك، تبدأ في إنفاقه."
Geoff Dyer
"It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form."
"لا يتطلب الأمر عناءً كبيرًا ليدرك المرء أن أي"
Geoff Dyer
"The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten."
"تبدو عبرة السفر بسيطةً للوهلة الأولى، لكنها عظيمة الأثر، وهي أن البشر يتسمون بنبل مدهش في شتى بقاع الأرض. وبالنظر إلى التفاوت الهائل في الدخل والثروة، فالمدهش ليس فقط أن المرء لا يُسرق في كل مكان، بل المدهش أنه لا يُفترس."
Geoff Dyer
"The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it."
"إن من يكتب الكتاب يتعلم بقدر من يقرؤه تماماً."
Geoff Dyer
"I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world."
"ما زلت أتأثر بمقاطع من ماركس: "نقد فلسفة الحق لهيغل" مثلاً، حيث بعد مقولته الشهيرة عن الدين بأنه "أفيون الشعوب"، يصفه بأنه "قلب عالم بلا قلب"."
Geoff Dyer
"I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that."
"أنا شديد التنافسية في جميع الرياضات، بطريقة تحيّر زوجتي حقًا لأنها نشأت تعزف الكمان والبيانو. لطالما كنت هكذا."
Geoff Dyer
"Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something."
Geoff Dyer
"Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire."
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