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"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
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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."
"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble."
"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."
"You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there."
"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
"Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?"
"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."
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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
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