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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the

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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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation. – Paul Theroux

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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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I was born to travel and write verse. – Theophile Gautier

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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. – Juliet Stevenson

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