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"That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."
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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."
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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
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"Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them."
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"That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world."
Home
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
Decision-Making
"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
War
"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
Travel
"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
Travel
"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore."
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