John Gimlette > Quotes

“A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

“Having compacted so much noise into the first half of his life, he was now spending the second gathering up the silence.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

“Someone had shaved the ship's dog to make it look like a lion.”
― John Gimlette, The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

“He never grew up, read his epitaph, but he never stopped growing.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

“They were timid travellers, he later wrote, driven more by the need to escape than the desire to arrive.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

“And the castle?' I asked.
'We built it,' said the skipper, 'to protect us from ourselves.”
― John Gimlette, Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace