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"A traveler has a
right to relate and embellish his adventures as he pleases, and it is very impolite to
refuse that deference and applause they deserve."
–Rudolph Erich Raspe
Travels of Baron Munchausen
Even with my eyes wide open, I can't see a thing.
- Zatoichi
Live while you live, and then die and be done with it.
- Dorothy Caulfield Fisher
I don't believe in doing work I don't want to do in order to live the way I don't want to live.
- Edward Abbey
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps for or fives times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
The more one
is able to leave one's cultural home, the more easily is one able to judge it, and the
whole world as well, with the spiritual detachment and generosity necessary for true
vision. The more easily, too, does one assess oneself and alien cultures with the same
combination of intimacy and distance.
- Edward Said
"Language is like a cracked
kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to
move the stars to pity."
-G. Flaubert
A day spent on the sea is a day not deducted from your life.
- Phoenician Proverb
Travel
is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places and saving them
from abstraction or ideology.
- Pico Iyer
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition.
- Tim Cahill
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