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“This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.”

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Book:I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

Source: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

“In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.”

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Book:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.”

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Author:Jim Harrison

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”

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Book:Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

Source: Diary: A Novel

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”

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Book:A World of Strangers

Source: A World of Strangers

“Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.”

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Book:Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.”

Source: The Desire for Elsewhere

“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.”

Source: The Desire for Elsewhere