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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Paul Theroux

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
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Earth Secret Thinking
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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Help Helping Mutual Weakness
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
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Book Pages Reading
I don’t look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren’t there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
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Hawaii Look Years
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate’s career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
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Career Country White
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.
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Book Order People
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t like other people. I’m not like that, I don’t think.
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Home People Thinking
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
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Boston Childhood Maine
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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Emotion Love Thinking Twenties

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

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