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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

My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
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
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
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
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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 almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip

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