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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as…
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of…
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
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The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen,…
— Robert Bridges
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street…
— James Joyce
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice…
— Paul Theroux
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The Lord, Har, Har, has ordained that the soul is to stay in her parents' home for only a few short days.
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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What does success require? short days, long nights, empty bank account, fake friends, two faced family members,faith in god, and faith in…
— Alexia
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Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it feel like, Short days, long nights, By the phone, no call,…
— Wale
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks,…
— John McCrae
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Short days long nights, by the phone no calls, on my mind no remorse, because I've long gone without you, and you…
— Blaze Olamiday
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