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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.

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
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
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
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
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Boredom Hero Novelists
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles

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