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The idea that
seeing life means going from place to place and doing a
great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to
dull minds.
-- Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
The routines
of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily
life.
-- Mason Cooley
When one
realizes that his life is worthless he either commits
suicide or travels.
-- Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author,
Critic
The personal
appropriation of clichés is a condition for the spread of
cultural tourism.
-- Serge Daney
1944-1992, French Film Critic
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Tourism, human
circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally
nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has
become banal.
-- Guy Debord
1931-, French Philosopher
To be a
tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings
don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to
drift across continents and languages, suspending the
operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of
stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire
mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting
stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out
maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get
anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat
or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and
the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months
without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with
thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms.
You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding
camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric,
thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next
shapeless event.
-- Don Delillo
1926-, American Author
Like all great
travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember
more than I have seen.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Journeys, like
artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing
circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or
determined by the will --whatever we may think.
-- Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author
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