Marrakech Quotes

• I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

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  Tahir Shah

  Believe   Journey   Preparation  

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.105, Random House

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

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  James A. Michener

  Creative   Groups   Would Be  

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• I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

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  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Son   Cities   Age  

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.

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  Albert Watson

  Photography   Kings   Nice  

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• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

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  Hamish Bowles

  Hot   May   Marrakech  

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