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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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"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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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
Importance


"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
Death


"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
Soul


"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
People


"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
Feelings


"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
Travel


"There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that."
First


"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."
Time


"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
Appearance


"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
Family
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