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> [The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/the-attributes-you-need-to-be-a-travel-writer-are-somewhat/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

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## More by Colin Thubron

> [“Tinha sido autorizada qualquer coisa a que eles chamavam Ocidente. Eu contemplava-a, pasmado, como um estrangeiro. No entanto, tinha a sensação de que o…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/tinha-sido-autorizada-qualquer-coisa-a-que-eles-chamavam-ocidente-eu/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [“Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn, and realise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/sometimes-you-feel-yourself-weightless-thinned-you-draw-back-the/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/the-attributes-you-need-to-be-a-travel-writer-are-somewhat/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [“Há muito que os comissários do gulag se tinham aposentado, com medalhas e pensões. Nem um único comparecera perante a justiça. A Rússia voltara…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/h-muito-que-os-comiss-rios-do-gulag-se-tinham-aposentado-com-medalhas/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/sometimes-a-journey-arises-out-of-hope-and-instinct-the-heady/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [“I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/i-had-a-heady-dream-of-loving-her-as-if-she-were-an-actress-on-a/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/sometimes-journeys-begin-long-before-their-first-step-is-taken/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/once-at-the-dreaming-dawn-of-history-before-the-world-was-categorized/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [“As the track bends north-east, the ethereal sandstone disappears. The slopes turn black with granite, and the mountain's lower ridges break into unstable spikes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/as-the-track-bends-north-east-the-ethereal-sandstone-disappears-the/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/a-nation-is-bound-not-only-by-the-real-past-but-the-stories-it-tells/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

> [“Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-thubron/just-as-the-roads-at-moscow-s-heart-flow-out-in-concentric-ripples/)

[Colin Thubron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-thubron/)

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