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“greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.”
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others...”
― An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers
― An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers
“If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it’s easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer—or a spy; you’ve always got, analytically, a ticket out.”
― The Man within My Head
― The Man within My Head
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
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“... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.”
― Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
― Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
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