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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.

Paul Theroux

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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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
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
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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Book Novelist Travel
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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Animal Loner Lover
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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Company Found Reminder
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
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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

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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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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