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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Theroux
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it’s much harder to stay at home and be polite to people and face things, but where’s the book in that? Better the boastful charade of pretending to be an adventurer:
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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