Question

Prepare a list of the litterateurs and their quotations mentioned by the writer in the passage.

Answer 1

1. Name of the litterateur: George Santayana. 
   Quotation: George Santayana writes, "We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what." 
2. Name of the litterateur: Oliver Cromwell
   Quotation: "A man never goes so far as when he doesn't know where he is going."
3. Names of the litterateurs: Camus, Christopher Isherwood
   Quotations: Camus said, "What gives value to travel is fear".
   Christopher Isherwood once said, "The ideal travel book should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which you're in search of something." 
4. Names of the litterateurs: Sir John Mandeville, Emerson, Thoreau and Sir Thomas Browne.
   Quotations: Emerson said, "Travelling is a fool's paradise."
   Thoreau said, "I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
   “Sir Thomas Browne sagely put it, "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. There is Africa and her prodigies in us." 
5. Names of the litterateurs: Peter Mathieson, Oliver Sacks, George Santayana
   Quotation: George Santayana wrote, "There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar; it keeps the mind nimble; it kills prejudice, and it fosters humour.”