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"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."
"Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real."
"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."
"Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion."
"The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism."
"The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses."
"He who must travel happily must travel light."
"On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
"I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life."
"Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them."
"Travelers must be content."
"Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world."
"I hope to see London once ere I die."
"Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses."
"I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there."
"In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business."
"The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life."
"I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"
"Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them."
"Everything good is on the highway."
