In this charming conversation the great travel writer Jan Morris talks to Paul Holdengraber about the religion of kindness, her love of Trieste, and plays one of her favorite records (bonus: there is whistling).

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Jan Morris on exclamation marks
Style is what you make of it. They don’t think it’s stylish… I do.

Jan Morris on the telephone
A lot of people are self-conscious when talking on the telephone, so the image of them that comes through of them isn’t a true one. Whereas if they’re sending an email, it is them, isn’t it? It’s just words…

Jan Morris on marvelous Trieste
We’re hybrids Trieste and I, aren’t we? We’re not one place, obviously, we’ve changed ourselves through the course of our history, Trieste has done it five or six time, I’ve just done it once.

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Jan Morris on kindness
I believe in the religion of kindness.

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