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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 children under the palm trees.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 life. I didn't like it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020