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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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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
— Fay Weldon
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History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's…
— Bruce Schneier
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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
— Gautama Buddha
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Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
— Paul Theroux
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Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely…
— Hannah Arendt
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Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares…
— Suzanne Collins
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As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come…
— Rex Stout
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God…
— Francis Chan
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