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Quote by Arthur Smith
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably b

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

Other quotes by Arthur Smith

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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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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Age
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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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Travel
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Travel
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Im obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. Ive literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book. – Emma Roberts

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Travel

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. – Pico Iyer

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Travel

I dont write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but thats it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed. – Barry Hannah

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Travel

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something Im really interested in, and so Im pitching a couple television shows. – Trishelle Cannatella

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Travel

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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Equality

Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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Writing

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. – Aldous Huxley

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Reform, Correction

Every vice has its excuse ready. – Publilius Syrus

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Excuses