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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies...

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We a...

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Hilaire BellocOn Nothing and Kindred Subjects

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, dead...

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Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea th...

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Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers -...

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Paul TherouxThe Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarante...

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People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor p...

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He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman ...

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Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overa...

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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a str...

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

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Bruce ChatwinWhat Am I Doing Here?

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White f...

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When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the...

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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have bee...

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