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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
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
An involuntary
return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most
disturbing of all journeys.
-- Iain Sinclair
1943-, British Author
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
1933-, American Essayist
A journey is
like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.
-- John Steinbeck
1902-1968, American Author
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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
1902-1968, American Author
For my part, I
travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's
sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and
hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this
feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite
underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
I travel not
to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The
great affair is to move.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
To travel
hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labor.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
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