Quote by Arthur Smith
Don Quixotes Delusions is an excellent read - far better than my o

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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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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funny
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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and Ive often found myself following in their footsteps – although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. – Arthur Smith

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Romantic
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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
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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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Travel

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. – Nelson A. Miles

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Travel

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals. – Zach Braff

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Travel

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. – G.K. Chesterton

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Travel

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