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"Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience."
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"Every travel is a blessed adventure."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
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"Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel."
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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
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"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."
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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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"My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone - we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers."
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"Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies."
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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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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
Writing
"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."
Society
"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."
Humor
"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."
Crime
"As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it."
Science
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
Technology
"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."
Science
"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."
Science
"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted."
Exploration
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
Economy
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