“ABSINTHE – Extra-violent poison: one glass and you are dead. Journalists drink it while writing their articles. Has killed more soldiers than the Bedouins.”
― The Dictionary of Received Ideas
― The Dictionary of Received Ideas
“love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another country, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“AMBITION – Always preceded by “mad” when it lacks nobility.”
― The Dictionary of Received Ideas
― The Dictionary of Received Ideas
“KORAN—Book by Mohammed, which is all about women.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“In roadside diners and late-night cafeterias, hotel lobbies and station cafés, we may dilute our feeling of isolation in a lonely public place and hence rediscover a distinctive sense of community.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
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