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Jax Tan
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“If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradictory information available, there is more reason to travel than ever before: to look closer, to dig deeper, to sort the authentic from the fake; to verify, to smell, to touch, to taste, to hear and sometimes - importantly - to suffer the effects of this curiosity.”
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“People will tell you, “What’s the use? What’s the point of reading novels and poetry?” They’ll tell you to go to law school or to be an economist or to do something useful. But books are useful. Books will make you thoughtful, and they might even make you happy. They will certainly help you to become more civilized.”
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
“Borges, who said, “Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.”
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar
“..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose, the reason why luxury cruises and great hotels are full of fatheads who, when they express an opinion, seem as though they are from another planet. It was also my experience that one of the worst aspects of travelling with wealthy people, apart from the fact that the rich never listen, is that they constantly groused about the high cost of living – indeed, the rich usually complained of being poor.”
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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