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“The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.”

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”

“Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)”

“I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.”

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”