"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

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"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Melancholy, Reflection, Experience

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Humility, Perspective, World

"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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Traveling

"Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too."

Jan Morris, English Writer

Travel, Adventure, Necessity, Thinking

"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Travel, Love, Hate, Observation

"For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Travel, Movement, Journey, Philosophy

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Travel,

"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."

bell hooks, American Critic

Travel, Body, Living, Mind

"The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind."

Jack Buck, American Celebrity

Travel, Blind, Hospitals

"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Travel, Walking

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"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."

Science

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

Office

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

Beginning

"I never worked in an office in my life."

Life

"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

Writing

"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."

Influence

"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

"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."

"Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too."

"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."

"For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"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."

"The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind."

"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

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"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

"I never worked in an office in my life."

"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."

"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."

"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."

"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."

"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."