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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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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. – 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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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

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Travel
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. – W. H. Auden

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Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But thats not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. Thats the only way to travel. – Kiran Ahluwalia

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Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? – John Cleese

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