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In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little chil...more

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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of al...more

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What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to...more

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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover some...more

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I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you ...more

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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't kn...more