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“I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.”
― The Trick is to Keep Breathing
― The Trick is to Keep Breathing
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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