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"A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain."

"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."

"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her."
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"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
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