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"Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else."
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"Every travel is a blessed adventure."
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"Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel."
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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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"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
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"The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade."
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"There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping."
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"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."
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"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
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"Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way."
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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."
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"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
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"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."
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"It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa."
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