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Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

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

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The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my l...more

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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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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a...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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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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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

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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