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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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Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be…
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It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never…
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I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady…
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For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence…
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting…
— Venus Williams
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For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a…
— Paul Theroux
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Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was…
— Dominique Moceanu
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For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
— Jill McCorkle
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Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and…
— Raven-Symone
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No question. I felt, a couple of those years, we had the best team, that was the sad part. All three years,…
— Jerome Bettis
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