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“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.”

People Pieces Stupid Taste Travel Empty Ugly Here And There Tourists Rubbish Stupid Things Pausing Ugly Things

Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

People Home Clear Pieces Modern New York Thousand Travel Hundred Prison Eight Preserves Abandon Museums Towers Boston Soap Whiskey Posters Pittsburgh

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”

Home Nations Pieces Travel Territory Geography Nation Building

Author:Robert Frost

“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.”

People Ifs Should Long Stills Ends Use Waiting Pieces Failing Journey Information Quiet Travel Train Valuable Practicals Nervous Glances Impatient Arrivals Railroads Conductor Pacing

Author:Anna Brackett

“Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.”

People Men Country Reason Pieces Travel Visiting

Book:Traveling While Married

Source: Traveling While Married