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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
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"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."


"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."


"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."


"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."


"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."


"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."


"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
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