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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.

Paul Theroux

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
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
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
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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Alive Grateful Squinting
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
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Experiences Reward Simple Thinking
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
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
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
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
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer

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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