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Travel works best when youre forced to come to terms with the plac

Travel works best when youre forced to come to terms with the place youre in. – 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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Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux

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alone
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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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I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. Ive been working with them for a year. – Anatoli Boukreev

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If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldnt be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important. – Linda Blair

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Were constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde. – Eva Herzigova

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We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. Its something that I definitely always remember, when Im playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement. – Christina Ricci

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[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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