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Exit Booted
"A traveler has a right to relate and embellish his adventures
as he pleases, and it is very impolite to refuse that deference and
applause they deserve."
–Rudolph Erich Raspe
Travels of Baron
Munchausen
Even with my eyes wide open, I can't see a
thing.
- Zatoichi
Live while you live, and then die and be done with
it.
- Dorothy Caulfield Fisher
I don't believe in doing work I don't want to do in order
to live the way I don't want to live.
- Edward Abbey
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of
life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain
number of times. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon
of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being
that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps for or fives
times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the
full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems
limitless.
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
The more one is able to leave one's cultural home, the
more easily is one able to judge it, and the whole world as well, with the
spiritual detachment and generosity necessary for true vision. The more
easily, too, does one assess oneself and alien cultures with the same
combination of intimacy and distance.
- Edward Said
Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for
bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
-G. Flaubert
A day spent on the sea is a day not deducted from your
life.
- Phoenician Proverb
Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of
places and saving them from abstraction or ideology.
- Pico
Iyer
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace
is basically a funny proposition.
- Tim Cahill
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