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

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If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradict...more

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...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes yo...more

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone o...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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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. Those whistle...more

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Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I ...more

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Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity...more

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The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

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What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy ...more

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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

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..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you...more