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    I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

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    I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

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    I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

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    I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

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    I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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    I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

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    I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

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    I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

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    I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

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    I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

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    I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

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    I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

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    I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

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    I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

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    I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

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    I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

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    I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

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    I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

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    If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

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    If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

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    If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

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    I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

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    I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

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    If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

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    If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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    If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

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    If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

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    If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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    If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

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    If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

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    If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

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    If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

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    If you don't know where you're going any road will do

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    If you're going to America, bring your own food.

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    If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

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    If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

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    If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

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    If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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    If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

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    If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

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    If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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    If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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    If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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    I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

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    I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

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    I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

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    I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

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    I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

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    I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

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    I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.