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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."

"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."

"Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind."

"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."
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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages."

"She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need."

"When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farm-workers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision--eating 'like everyone else'--is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic."

"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."
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