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Travel Quotes
"Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia."
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"I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier."
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"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."
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"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
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"For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands."
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"But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are."
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
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"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team."
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"Every traveler should make their own observation."
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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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"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
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"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
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"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
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"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
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"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
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"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
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"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect."
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
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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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"Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where."
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"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
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"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart's affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."
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"I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things."
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"When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don't want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists."
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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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