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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

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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Book Novelist Travel
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 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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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
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
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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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
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
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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Help Helping Mutual Weakness
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

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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