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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Paul Theroux

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
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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Home Memories Perfect
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
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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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Book Pages Reading
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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 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
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society

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