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Travel Quotes
"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write."
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"Grace was breathing heavily when she crested a hill that was a lot steeper than she had originally though. She stood looking over the land even as a cold breeze blew past her. She wrapped her arms around herself. Though she had traveled extensively all over Europe, she continued to set her stories in Scotland. Her father used to laugh about it, telling her that there must be something in Scotland drawing her to the land. She used to roll her eyes at his teasing. Now she wondered if he hadn't been right."
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"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
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"Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else."
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"I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
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"Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail."
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"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
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"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
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"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."
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"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
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"I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab would be at Marrakech, not I : I should still be seated in my room, placid and meditative as is my chosen life, two thousand miles away from the Moroccan and his burnoose. In my room. Forever."
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"I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told."
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"Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year."
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"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there."
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"For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening."
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"Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money."
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"I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours."
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"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
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"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
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"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."
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"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
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"You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit."
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"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country."
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"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place."
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"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
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"It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories."
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"I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel."
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"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
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