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"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."
"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"
"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."
"Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved."
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"If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details."
"Music - good music, great music - had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something."
"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't."
"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
"WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius."
"The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser."
"I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life."
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