Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
PAUL THEROUXOne of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.
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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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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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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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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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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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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.
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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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