Dorothy Garrod

Quotes

• “You crawl on your stomach for hours … climbing up yawning abysses (lighted only by an acetylene lamp …) and get knocked on the head by stalactites and on the legs by stalagmites, and in the end arrive at all sorts of wonders; bison modelled in clay, and portraits of sorcerers, and footprints of Magdalenian man.”
• “Mud, muck, ooze upon the floor, torn tents and thunder – all were forgotten as the sherry bottle was opened”
• “j’aime mieux écrire que discuter de vive voix [I much prefer to write than discuss aloud]”
• “Europe was only after all a peninsula of Africa and Asia”

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