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"I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal."
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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."
"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."
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."
"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
"One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling."
"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them."
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