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    People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

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    Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

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    Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

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    Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

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    Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

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    Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

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    Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.

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    Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

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    Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

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    Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

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    Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

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    Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.

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    Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

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    Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

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    Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

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    Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

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    Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

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    Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

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    Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

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    She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

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    Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

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    sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

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    Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

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    So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

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    Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

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    Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

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    Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

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    Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

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    some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

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    Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

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    Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

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    Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

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    Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

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    Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

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    Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

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    Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

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    Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

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    Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

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    Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

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    Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

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    Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

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    Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

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    Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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    The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

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    Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

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    That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

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    The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

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    Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.

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    The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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    The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

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