I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep-leave it any way except a slow way; leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham

West with the Night

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Topic

Letting go of the past

Author

Beryl Markham

Source

West with the Night

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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