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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
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"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."


"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."


"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."


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


"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."


"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."


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