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Author: Beryl Markham
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  1. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    What came from him, if emanate is not the better word, was a force that bore inspiration, spread confidence in the dignity of life, and even gave sometimes a presence to silence.
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  2. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I could sit in a cabin overcrowded with petrol tanks and set my course for North America, but the knowledge of my hands on the controls would be Tom's knowledge. His words of caution and words of guidance, spoken so long ago, so many times, on bright mornings over the veldt or over a forest, or with a far mountain visible at the tip of our wing, would be spoken again, if I asked.
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  3. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk under the blended drone of engine and propeller.
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  4. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I fly swiftly. I fly high - south-southwest, over the Ngong Hills. I am relaxed. My right hand rests upon the stick in easy communication with the will and the way of the plane.
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  5. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Somebody with a flair for small cynicism once said, 'We live and do not learn.' But I have learned some things.I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in 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 than 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. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
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  6. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Many German flyers, having a superstition that to wish good luck brings bad luck, will see a fellow pilot off with the cheering remark, 'Farewell - but I hope you break your arms and legs!
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  7. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
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  8. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I always concluded that lonely or not it was still free from the curse of boredom.
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  9. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in 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. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. I left the farm at Njoro almost the slowest way, and I never saw it again.
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  10. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Tail winds and happy landings.
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  11. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. It had followed the constant pattern of discard and growth that all lives follow."
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  12. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    Bookmakers tread on each other's toes, on mine, on anybody's, or stand flat-footed scowling at scraps of paper clutched like passports to El Dorado.
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