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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
-Jonathan Raban
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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world
-MaryAnne Radmacher- Hershey
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
-Robert Runcie
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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
-Damon Runyon
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.
-Bertrand Russell
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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.
-Vita Sackville-West
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There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back — and I will.
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-Robert William Service
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. Publishers: Barse & Co. New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J.. Copyright, 1916
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Journeys end in lovers meeting.
-William Shakespeare
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
-George Bernard Shaw
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-Ted Simon
Jupiter
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I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
-Ted Simon
Jupiter's Travels
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
-Iain Sinclair
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
-Susan Sontag
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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
-John Steinbeck
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Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.
-John Steinbeck
Travels With Charley
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move...
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.
-Edward Streeter
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Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
-Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
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A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.
-Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
-Paul Theroux
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
-Paul Theroux
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Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.
-Alice Thompson
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Books about Travel
