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"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
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"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."
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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
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"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."
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"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."
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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."
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"As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
Travel
"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."
Development
"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."
Peace
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
Travel
"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
Travel
"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume."
Etiquette
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
Travel
"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
Writing
"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."
Food
"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
Principle
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