"The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.“

-Paul Theroux

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"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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"A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing."

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"Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in."

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"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."

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"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

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

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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."

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"I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel."

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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."

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