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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and en

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. – Arthur Smith

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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

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The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but thats about it. – Arthur Smith

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funny
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Don Quixotes Delusions is an excellent read – far better than my own forthcoming travel book, Walking Backwards Across Tuscany. – Arthur Smith

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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. – Jerzy Kosinski

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Its important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so youve got more to feed back into your work. For me, its a natural thing. – Cate Blanchett

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Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? – Elisabeth Bishop

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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. – Aristophanes

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. – Jean Rostand

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