“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
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