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"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."
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"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
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"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."
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"You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there."
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"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?"
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"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
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"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
Society

"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
Travel

"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
Soul

"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."
Life

"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."
Time

"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard."
Work

"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
Life

"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
Act
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