"I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school."
-Arthur Smith
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"Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.“
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"It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."
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"Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography."
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"Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'"
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"The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km."
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"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
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"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
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