Top 90 Robyn Davidson Quotes

#1. You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

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#2. I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

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#3. When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.

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#4. That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

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#5. I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

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#6. I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

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#7. The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.

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#8. And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

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#9. I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

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#10. Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

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#11. The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

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#12. Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

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#13. It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.

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#14. Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

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#15. If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.
Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life's so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some.

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#16. And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

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#17. These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

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#18. The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

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#19. I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as odiously condescendign or downright brutal as one likes, yet with whom one lived as intimately as family.

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#20. When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

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#21. I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

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#22. I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

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#23. By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

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#24. It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

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#25. If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

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#26. During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

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#27. After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

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#28. Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

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#29. You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

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#30. Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it ...

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#31. I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

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#32. You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

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#33. I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

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#34. I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

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#35. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

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#36. And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.

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#37. One continues to learn things in life, then promptly forget them.

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#38. When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

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#39. The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.

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#40. The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

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#41. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

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#42. People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

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#43. If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

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#44. The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

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#45. I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

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#46. If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized

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#47. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks,

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#48. There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

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#49. In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

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#50. Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.'

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#51. I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.

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#52. You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

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#53. As you get older, you do just get tired.

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#54. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

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#55. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

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#56. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

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#57. The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

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#58. Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

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#59. By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

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#60. I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So

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#61. Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

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#62. In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

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#63. That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

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#64. I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump ... and pray.

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#65. My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

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#66. It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

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#67. The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

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#68. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and

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#69. It's important that we leave each other and the comfort of it, and circle away, even though it's hard sometimes, so that we can come back and swap information about what we've learnt even if what we do changes us and

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#70. I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

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#71. Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

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#72. Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

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#73. Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

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#74. When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.

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#75. Desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels, ...

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#76. The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

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#77. I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway, it's beside the point. And when you're walking into the western sun, no hat in the world is going to save your face and neck from being sizzled.

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#78. At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

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#79. I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.

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#80. Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

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#81. As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

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#82. My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

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#83. I made lists of lists of lists, then started all over again. And if I did something that wasn't on a list, I would promptly write it on one and cross it out, with the feeling of having at least accomplished something.

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#84. The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

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#85. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.

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#86. In picking up a rock I could no longer simply say, 'This is a rock,' I could now say, 'This is part of a net,' or closer, 'This, which everything acts upon, acts.' When this way of thinking became ordinary for me, I too became lost in the net and the boundaries of myself stretched out for ever.

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#87. I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

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#88. London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

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#89. I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity

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#90. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

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