"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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"Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling."
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"You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over."
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"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system."
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"Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them."
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"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."
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"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
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"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in."
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"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage"
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"When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon."
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"[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane."
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"Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again."
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"Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives."
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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."
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"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
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"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends"
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"We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
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"What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing."
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"The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself."
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