Quotes by John Gimlette

John Gimlette

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

Book

Given

Reading

American travel writing is very healthy. I’m always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing – and an impressive line up and continual demand.

Demand

Healthy

Writing

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

Different

People

War

Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn’t done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing – and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It’s very successful as technique.

Dog

Ice

Successful

Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it’s fantastic – but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

Buenos Aires

Cities

Thinking

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

Age

Impression

Thinking

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that’s what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

Boston

Different

Mean

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

People

Upset

Writing

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

Europe

I am no apologist for Fidel’s [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

Castro

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Totalitarian Regimes

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Quotes by John Gimlette

John Gimlette

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

American travel writing is very healthy. I’m always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing – and an impressive line up and continual demand.

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn’t done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing – and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It’s very successful as technique.

Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it’s fantastic – but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that’s what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

I am no apologist for Fidel’s [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

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