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" Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. "
John Burroughs
Moss
Society
Stone
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" If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes. "
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" I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth. "
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" I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. "
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" Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. "
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" If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments. "
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" While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel. "
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" At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space. "
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" People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that. "
Tom Bodett
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" I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. "
Paul Theroux
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" Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar. "
John Burroughs
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" New York is the great stone desert. "
Israel Zangwill
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" I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things. "
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" The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together. "
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" Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. "
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" I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in. "
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" I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible. "
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" I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals. "
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" Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields. "
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" Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy. "
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" Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. "
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" I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there. "
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" Two great talkers will not travel far together. "
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" I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes. "
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" On a normal day, I love a shift dress with flats and a little cropped jacket. That, for me, is my travel wear if it's not too chilly - you can throw a scarf over your legs if it's cold on the plane! "
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" Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us. "
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Exists
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" I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture. "
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" I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing. "
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