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“But thats the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You cant read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you cant even reliably cros...”
“There's something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, I'm forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers, in ...”
“Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.”
“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”
“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
“I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked with things beyond marking. I would leave the simulated test and enter into fo...”
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ”
“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us f...”
“This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of y...”
“These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind”
“And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here.”
“Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.”
“There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I ...”
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this ...”
“The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.”
“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.”
“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? What childish...”
“As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.”
“I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I h...”
