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Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where th

Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

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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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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. – Paul Theroux

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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon. – Wallis Simpson

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Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. – Jerry Costello

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All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, its really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries. – AnnaLynne McCord

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Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. – Horace

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