- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 all joy and all art.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
- Nerves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
- Etiquette
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
- Good Manners
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
- Hawaii
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020