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"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

"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."

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

"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."
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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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