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"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
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"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."

"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy."

"I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things."

"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."

"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
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