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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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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. – Arthur Smith

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It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. – Arthur Smith

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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. – Henry Rollins

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. – Jerzy Kosinski

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Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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I dont deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I dont deserve that either. – Jack Benny

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