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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.

Paul Theroux

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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
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
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
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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
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
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

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