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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. – Jose Saramago

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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of cultural lamination that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. – Jose Saramago

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. – Jose Saramago

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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. – Jose Saramago

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You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think its sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit. – Lesley Gore

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

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Weve got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so its not surprising airline stocks are going up. – Andrew Sullivan

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We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. – Maria Mitchell

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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. – Benjamin Disraeli

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One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. – Buffalo Bill

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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