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The country of
the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an
embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God,
does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants
and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the
grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
-- Nadine Gordimer
1923-, South African Author
Of journeying
the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the
heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the
delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown
friends, and the learning of high manners.
-- Sadi, Gulistan
I would like
to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another
life to spend at home.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
Writing and
travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write
standing up.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
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They change
their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
-- Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet
To travel is
to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
Your true
traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is
the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He
accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely
philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
Being on tour
sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John
Mcenroe in me.
-- Chrissie Hynde
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