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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Paul Theroux

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
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
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
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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

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