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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road QUOTES

The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road QUOTES

1 " The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

2 " A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God.—OPE "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

3 " A train journey is travel; everything else—planes especially—is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands.—GRB "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

4 " I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about. "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

5 " I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom. "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

6 " Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home. "

― Paul Theroux , The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road