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“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”

“Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.”

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Author:Rose Macaulay

“We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.”

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Author:Denise Levertov

“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?”

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Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'”

“And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.”

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Book:Sailing Alone: Around the World

Source: Sailing Alone: Around the World

“The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.”

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Author:Kenneth Koch

“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”

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Author:Priscilla Presley

“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”

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Author:Erich von Stroheim

“Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.”

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Author:John M. Ford

“An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.”

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Author:Roberta Williams

“My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.”

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Author:Roberta Williams

“Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.”

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Book:Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.”

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Book:How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling

Source: How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling