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Thomas Perry

"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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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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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

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"Every travel gives me new thought into life."

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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

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"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

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"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."

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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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