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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
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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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"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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"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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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."
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"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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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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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
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"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."
Food

"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
Travel

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
Life

"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."
Peace

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

"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
Being

"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."
Development

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
Travel
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