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"It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well."
"I will not be just a tourist in a world of images."
"I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back."
"Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?"
"New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists."
"Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!"
"The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England."
"The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt."
"Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans."
"Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up."
"You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it."
"...the tourist Venice is Venice."
